Issue addressed: Building health promotion workforce capacity and infrastructure is critical to ensure a strong evidence base for effective interventions, sustainability and ultimately positive health outcomes for the community. Accordingly, there is a need to build workforce capacity by providing pathways into the health promotion sector with opportunities for core health promotion competency development. Currently, there is a lack of transition programs and graduate-specific positions in health promotion. Methods:This study presents a descriptive case study of a 20year health promotion scholarships program administered by the Australian Health Promotion Association (WA Branch) and Healthway for health promotion graduates and Aboriginal health workers. Scholarship recipients and supervisors reported on demographics, projects and perspectives on the value of participating in the program. Results: More than 2 million dollars has been invested to provide health promotion career pathways in WA via 100 scholarships. Key themes relating to program value included as follows: practical application of theoretical concepts; reciprocity; and building skills and capacity in both recipients and supervisors. Conclusions: The scholarships program results in a number of benefits to the recipient, host organisation and the overall health promotion sector and is an example of long-term investment to build health promotion capacity with potential for replication. So what? Investment in competency-driven health promotion scholarships to create dedicated health promotion career pathways for new practitioners contributes to the capacity of an effective health promotion workforce. General Practice organisations/other non-government health services 8 8 Aboriginal controlled health organisations CONFLI CT OF INTEREST GC is the current national president of AHPA and past WA president. JH is a former Scholarships Coordinator and an AHPA (WA Branch) Strategic Advisory Committee member. AB is a former AHPA (WA Branch) Secretary. JCa is the current Scholarships Coordinator and former AHPA (WA Branch) President. JCl is the Health Promotion Director at Healthway. TS is an AHPA Life Member.

The Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem (BCe2) is a collaborative community project designed to restore and enhance a vital but polluted river tributary by linking the efforts of local community groups, schools, and universities in the revitalizing city of South Bend, Indiana. As a community-based engineering project continues, two faculty advisors and two anthropology students reflect on the program's inaugural summer as practicing ethnographers. Practice, as an anthropological concept, not only has continual relevance for this ethnographic team; its confluence flows directly from the merger of collaborative engineering with practicing anthropology. The team explored “ethnographic engineering” as an emergent collaborative form of practicing anthropology.

Currently a student of the University of Notre Dame, my long term goals are to become a citizen of the world, a metropolitan learner. As Anthropology is my passion, I hope to continue to better my skills in ethnographic research.