The National Public Health Partnership (NPHP) is an innovative network created by the National Health Museum to expand the availability of health information and education in the nation’s science museums.
American museums receive hundreds of millions of multigenerational visits every year. Science center’s specifically serve approximately 60 million visitors annually.
These institutions are enormously attractive venues for distributing health-related information. This is especially important at a time when the nation’s health organizations (specifically those in the public health community) are aggressively seeking novel, attractive, and credible settings in which to communicate their health promotion and disease prevention messages.
The NPHP links the extensive content resources of public health organizations with the informal learning expertise of museum and science centers.
Funded originally by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2002, the National Health Museum convened the NPHP in association with the American Association of Museums, the Association of Science-Technology Centers, and the American Public Health Association. The NPHP Steering Committee is comprised of more than two dozen leading public health organizations and science museums.
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