A Global Health Framework at Tufts University

描述(申请人提供)：本申请是根据PAR-05-050《全球健康框架计划》提交的。塔夫茨大学作为一个整体，拥有广泛的全球健康相关教育、奖学金和研究组合。然而，到目前为止，这些活动还没有明显的联系。我们建议在塔夫茨大学为这一全球健康计划建立一个管理框架。它将设在塔夫茨的公共卫生和家庭医学部，这也是塔夫茨公共卫生项目的所在地。我们还建议在塔夫茨大学开设一门跨学科的全球卫生课程。在这一努力中，我们不仅将利用塔夫茨现有的智慧、专业知识和资源，还将包括非洲、印度和其他地方的合作伙伴组织的智慧、专业知识和资源。这个项目将特别利用塔夫茨大学新的和创新的基于互联网的教育努力的优势，这些努力得到了NIH路线图课程开发资金的支持。这个项目在塔夫茨得到了最高级别的支持。作为这一努力的核心管理部分，我们将在塔夫茨公共卫生硕士项目中开设一个跨学科的全球卫生集中项目，该项目的课程将向塔夫茨的所有学生开放。公共卫生项目正在与塔夫茨的大多数学校合作开设联合学位课程，包括兽医学院、营养学院、工程学学院和弗莱彻国际法与外交学院。通过这种集中的机制，我们将在不同的场所吸引这些合作学校的相关教职员工和学生，以建立全球卫生领域的跨学科教育和研究。与这一行政和教育核心职能的发展相联系的是全球健康课程的开发，该课程将与营养学院、工程学院、兽医学院和弗莱彻学院的教职员工以及我们的海外合作伙伴共同开发。全球健康是我们用来描述世界各地与医学和公共卫生有关的知识体系的术语。它包括诸如发展经济学、灾害援助、营养不良和水的处理等主题，以确保饮用水的安全。我们的项目将支持学生的教育，以及结合所有这些知识领域的新研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is submitted in response to PAR-05-050, Framework Programs for Global Health. Tufts University as a whole has an extensive portfolio of Global Health related education, scholarship, and research. However, these activities have not to date been overtly linked. We propose to build an administrative framework for this Global Health program at Tufts University. It will be housed in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts, which is also the seat for the public health programs at Tufts. We also propose to develop an interdisciplinary Global Health curriculum at Tufts. In this endeavor, we will utilize not only the wisdom, expertise, and resources existing at Tufts, but will also include those of partner organizations in Africa, India, and elsewhere. This project will in particular leverage the strengths of new and innovative internet based educational efforts at Tufts that are supported by NIH Roadmap Curriculum development funding. This project enjoys the highest level of support at Tufts. As the core administrative part of this endeavor, we will open an interdisciplinary Global Health concentration in the Tufts MPH program, the courses of which will be open to all students at Tufts. The public health programs have ongoing collaborative joint degree programs with most of the Schools at Tufts, including the Schools of Veterinary Medicine, Nutrition, Engineering, and the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy. Through the mechanism of this concentration, we will engage relevant faculty, staff and students at these collaborating Schools in a variety of venues so as to build interdisciplinary education and research in the field of Global Health. Tied to the development of this administrative and educational core function is the development of a Curriculum in Global Health, which will be developed in conjunction with faculty from the Schools of Nutrition, Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, and the Fletcher School, as well as our partners overseas. Global Health is the term we use to describe the body of knowledge relating to medicine and public health all around the world. It includes subjects such as development economics, disaster assistance, malnutrition, and the treatment of water so it is safe to drink. Our project will support the education of students, and new research, that combines all of these knowledge areas.