Developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Global Health

描述（由申请人提供）：在杜克大学开发跨学科全球健康研究生课程的过程中，杜克大学全球健康研究所（DGHI）建议开发跨学科全球健康理学硕士（MSc-GH）学位课程，该课程将面向大学各学院和部门希望攻读双学位的本科生、研究生和专业学生，以及住院医生。该计划将为学生提供灵活的课程，并获得来自许多学科的教师，将培养全面发展，知情和道德的领导者和探索者，准备进行前沿研究，影响政策变化，并通过一系列方法提高各种环境中的卫生服务质量。利用杜克大学丰富的跨学科研究传统，这一创新项目将涉及医学院和大学两方面的学校和部门，包括医学院、特里桑福德公共政策研究所、尼古拉斯环境与地球科学学院、普拉特工程学院、法学院、神学院、护理学院和福库商学院。代表这些学校的多学科委员会将开发课程和项目，其中可能包括在线或远程组件。我们预计课程的基本组成部分将包括一套核心课程（全球卫生挑战、全球卫生政策和研究方法，包括生物统计学和流行病学）、实地经验、选修课或重点领域以及一篇论文。这个MSc-GH的建立还将促进杜克大学和其他大学之间在建立和发展实地站点和海外合作伙伴关系方面的合作，这将使学生能够与社区合作伙伴一起工作，获得精心设计、教育和互利的研究机会。因此，该项目将促进机构间实地站点的共享，以便一个机构的学生可以利用另一个机构在该领域的合作伙伴关系和项目。通过设计和创建MSc-GH，新成立的DGHI将继续作为杜克大学全球卫生倡议的协调机构，在本科、研究生、专业、博士后和教师层面进行教育、研究和服务。因此，DGHI将领导全校范围内的工作，协调招聘和雇用具有全球卫生专业知识的一系列学科的教员。该项目将在两个重要方面促进公共卫生。首先，通过发展全球卫生理学硕士学位课程，而不是公共卫生，我们希望将全球卫生牢固地确立为一门学科，并开发具有强大领域组成部分的深度跨学科课程，可供美国和国外其他学术机构效仿。其次，该计划将培养全面，知情和道德的领导者和询问者，他们准备进行前沿研究，影响政策变化，并通过一系列方法提高各种环境下的卫生服务质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Global Health at Duke University, the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) proposes the development of an interdisciplinary Master of Science in Global Health (MSc-GH) degree program that will target undergraduates, graduate and professional students from schools and departments across the University who wish to pursue a dual degree, and medical residents. This program, which will offer students a flexible curriculum and access to faculty from many disciplines, will produce well-rounded, informed and ethical leaders and inquirers poised to undertake cutting-edge research, effect policy change and improve the quality of health services in a variety of settings through a range of approaches. Drawing on Duke's rich tradition of interdisciplinary study, this innovative program will involve schools and departments from both the Medical and University sides of campus, including the School of Medicine, the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Law School, the Divinity School, the Nursing School, and the Fuqua School of Business. A multidisciplinary committee representing these schools will develop the curriculum and the program, which will likely include online or distance components. We anticipate that the essential components of the curriculum will include a set of core courses (global health challenges, global health policy, and research methods, including biostatistics and epidemiology), a field experience, electives or areas of concentration, and a thesis. The establishment of this MSc-GH also will foster collaboration between Duke and other universities in the creation and development of field sites and partnerships abroad that will allow students to work with community partners on well-designed, educational and mutually beneficial research opportunities. The project will thus promote inter-institutional sharing of field sites so that students from one institution can take advantage of another institution's partnerships and programs in the field. Through the design and creation of the MSc-GH, the newly established DGHI will continue its emergence as the coordinating body of Duke's Global Health initiatives in education, research and service, at the undergraduate, graduate, professional, postdoctoral and faculty levels. As such, DGHI will lead the university- wide effort to coordinate the recruitment and hiring of faculty from a range of disciplines with Global Health expertise. This project will contribute to public health in two important ways. First, through the development of a Master of Science degree program in Global Health, as opposed to Public Health, we hope to firmly establish Global Health as an academic discipline and to develop a deeply interdisciplinary curriculum with a strong field component that can be modeled by other academic institutions in the United States and abroad. Second, the program will produce well-rounded, informed and ethical leaders and inquirers poised to undertake cutting-edge research, effect policy change and improve the quality of health services in a variety of settings through a range of approaches.