Progress on Global Reform

 

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May 2012
In this issue
India's Innovation Collaboration to Model How to Teach Interdisciplinary Leadership Skills
PHFI Workshop Focuses on Competencies for Modern Public Health
Symposium Looks at Teams Already Transforming Healthcare Delivery
MEPI Making Progress in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dear Colleague,

 

We continue to make headway in stimulating both debate as well as concrete actions to adapt recommendations of the Lancet Commission report to the needs of regions and individual nations. In this issue, we'd like to focus on what's happening in health education reform in India and the Asian region.

 

India has one of the four "innovation collaboratives" chosen by the U.S. Institute of Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education. Prof. Sanjay P. Zodpey, MD, PhD, Director of Public Health Education of the Public Health Foundation of India, is heading their regional collaborative, which also includes Jawaharial Nehru Medical College and the Symbiosis College of Nursing. Their project is to develop and pilot an innovative training model built on the interdisciplinary leadership skills they'll be identifying that are necessary in medicine, nursing and public health.

 

Prof. Zodpey and the Public Health Foundation of India also hosted a workshop in India in April that focused on the common challenges in designing competency-based curricula for modern public health. We participated, joined by others from India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, China and the Harvard School of Public Health--all already involved in revamping public health education. There's more about this as well as the innovation collaborative in stories below.

 

You'll find more news and upcoming events on our website at  http://www.healthprofessionals21.org. As always, please forward this newsletter to anyone you think would also be interested in our updates.

 

 

Best regards,

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Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health and Commission Co-chair 

 

Lincoln Chen, President, China Medical Board and Commission Co-chair

India's Innovation Collaboration to Model How to Teach Interdisciplinary Leadership Skills

"Interdisciplinary leadership competencies will empower us to confront the 21st century challenges," points out Prof. Sanjay Zodpey, who is heading India's regional innovation collaborative, one of four collaboratives selected by the Institute of Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education. Their plan includes identifying leadership competencies through literature searches and other strategies and a two-day consultation with outside experts to generate recommendations that will be the basis of training program development. They will then develop a training model and a manual, and pilot the model at partner institutions. Read more. 

PHFI Workshop Focuses on Competencies for Modern Public Health                      
Recognizing the common challenges of designing competency-based curricula, the Public Health Foundation of India--in cooperation with the Harvard School of Public Health and the China Medical Board--organized a workshop in New Delhi, India on 18-19 April 2012 on "Cross-Country Comparison of Master's and Doctoral Level Public Health Programs with a Focus on Competency-Driven Curriculum." Read more. 

Symposium Looks at Teams Already Transforming Healthcare Delivery

As a means for building future education models, participants at UPenn's "Partners in Education and Practice: Stronger Teams, Better Health" symposium in April 2012 examined highly-functioning interprofessional teams who are already transforming healthcare delivery. The day began and ended with comments from two who also served on the Commission that produced the Lancet report: Jordan J. Cohen, MD, former president of the Association of American Medical Colleges and professor of medicine and public health at George Washington University, and Dean of UPenn's School of Nursing, Afaf Meleis, PhD. Read more.

MEPI Making Progress in Sub-Saharan Africa

The U.S. government-sponsored PEPFAR Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is making progress in its five-year initiative to support African medical education. MEPI has granted awards to 13 medical schools in 12 African countries for medical education and locally-relevant research capacity-building in Sub-Saharan Africa. They're doing this through strategies intended to increase the quantity, quality and retention of graduates with the training and skills most relevant the health needs of their national populations. Read more.

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