The academic health department (AHD) is a partnership between an academic institution and a governmental health agency. These partnerships are meant to provide mutual benefits that include opportunities for student field placements and internships, practice-informed curriculum, and practice-based research. The term academic health department dates back only to 2000, although there are several examples of academic–practice partnerships prior to that date. In addition to AHDs that have been established over the past two decades, other forms of academic–practice engagement provide similar mutual benefits, such as prevention research centers and public health training centers. Current research on AHDs explores how these partnerships matter regarding the outputs, outcomes, and impacts of the units that comprise them. This review also considers the most recent perspectives on how AHDs have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and how they might advance public health's efforts to address structural racism and promote health equity.

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学术公共卫生部门的价值和影响

学术卫生部门 (AHD) 是学术机构和政府卫生机构之间的合作伙伴关系。这些合作伙伴关系旨在提供互惠互利，包括学生实地实习和实习的机会、基于实践的课程和基于实践的研究。 “学术健康部门”一词的历史只能追溯到 2000 年，尽管在该日期之前就有一些学术与实践合作的例子。除了过去二十年建立的 AHD 之外，其他形式的学术实践参与也提供了类似的互惠互利，例如预防研究中心和公共卫生培训中心。目前关于 AHD 的研究探讨了这些伙伴关系对于组成它们的单位的产出、成果和影响有何影响。本次审查还考虑了 AHD 如何应对 COVID-19 大流行以及它们如何推动公共卫生努力解决结构性种族主义和促进健康公平的最新观点。