Thomas Foley, MPH HP
Clinical Assistant Professor
Binghamton University
Thomas Foley is a Clinical Assistant Professor within the Division of Public Health at the Binghamton University SUNY Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences. In addition to teaching several courses in the Master of Public Health Program, Foley serves as the Public Health Representative of Interprofessional Education (IPE) at Binghamton University. He is the Chair of the IPE Curriculum and Assessment Committee in addition to being a member of the IPE Program Committee. Foley has more than 15 years of experience planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating health education and promotion programs and providing instruction, leadership, mentorship, and training. This includes work as a member of collabarative care teams in clinical settings, in the design and implementation of a student-led, interprofessional not-for-profit clinic that serves people experiencing and transitioning out of homelessness, and the lead editor of an interprofessional textbook that examines health and health systems across the globe.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Interprofessional education (IPE) increases students’ self-efficacy to work in interprofessional, person-centered health teams. IPE student leadership organizations have demonstrated an ability to improve students’ feeling about IPE. Therefore, the IPE faculty, staff, and students at Binghamton University recently formed an IPE student leadership group, the Binghamton Inter-Professional Education Consortium (BIPEC), to promote collaborative leadership and student-centered education among the public health, nursing, pharmacy, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech and…