The LHDs with an established partnership with academia reported the following themes of collaborative activities that promote public health education and public health workforce development (Table 4): providing internships to students from undergraduate programs; presenting guest lectures on selected topics to colleges; providing information, data, statistics to students working on community health-oriented projects; providing job shadowing opportunities;
mentoring students as trainees, or volunteers; collaborating on a research project with an academic institution; serving as an adjunct professor for a specific class; acting as a thesis advisor for an undergraduate student; service learning opportunities (such opportunities
were defined broadly as working on projects that benefit communities.)