Pedagogy in Health Promotion Article

The UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program is an 8-week intensive summer program that annually engages 35 to 40 undergraduate students in experiential public health training through community-based internships, creating pathways into the public health workforce and graduate education for students primarily from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds. As a contributor to the original grant and a key member of the team that designed and launched the program, my role evolved over time through evaluation and advisory capacities. This article, on which I served as lead author, presents the program's adapted, evidence-based experiential learning model and an evaluation framework assessing scholar growth across intrapersonal, interpersonal, societal, strategic professional, and foundational public health competencies.