Building capacity for local public health: lessons from a mixed-methods evaluation of an academic-public health partnership used in response to COVID-19

IntroductionThe Massachusetts Academic Health Department Consortium (AHD) established 15-eg2373cl the Academic Public Health Volunteer Corps (APHVC) to support Local Health Departments (LHDs, n = 351) to meet rapidly emerging needs during the COVID-19 pandemic through engaging student volunteers.A program evaluation captured lessons learned and inf

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Catchment legacies and time lags: a parsimonious watershed model to predict the effects of legacy storage on nitrogen export.

Nutrient legacies in anthropogenic landscapes, accumulated over decades of fertilizer application, lead to time lags between implementation hellfire sloe gin of conservation measures and improvements in water quality.Quantification of such time lags has remained difficult, however, due to an incomplete understanding of controls on nutrient depletio

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