Developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Global Health

开发全球健康跨学科研究生课程

• 批准号: 7905771
• 负责人: MICHAEL H. MERSON
• 金额: $ 6.04万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-10 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7905771
• 关键词: Academic Medical Centers; Area; Biometry; Businesses; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Communities; Country; Development; Discipline; Disease; Education; Educational Curriculum; Engineering; Environment; Epidemiology; Ethics; Evaluation; Faculty; Fostering; Government; Health; Health Policy; Health Services; Health Services Research; Institutes; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; International; Laws; Lead; Master of Science; Medical; Mission; Modeling; Nursing Schools; Policies; Policy Research; Positioning Attribute; Public Health; Public Policy; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Resources; School Nursing; Schools; Science; Services; Side; Site; Students; Training; United States; Universities; Work; design; experience; flexibility; global health; graduate student; health disparity; improved; innovation; interdisciplinary collaboration; medical schools; multidisciplinary; programs

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：在开发杜克大学全球健康跨学科研究生课程时，杜克全球健康研究所（DGHI）提议开发跨学科全球健康理学硕士（MSc-GH）学位课程，该课程将针对希望攻读双学位的大学各学院和系的本科生、研究生和专业学生以及住院医师。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，知情和道德的领导者和调查者，他们准备进行前沿研究，影响政策变革，并通过一系列方法在各种环境中提高卫生服务的质量。借鉴杜克丰富的跨学科研究传统，这一创新项目将涉及校园内医学和大学双方的学校和部门，包括医学院，特里桑福德公共政策研究所，环境和地球科学的尼古拉斯学院，工程的普拉特学院，法学院，神学院，护理学院和福库商学院。一个代表这些学校的多学科委员会将制定课程和计划，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，选修课或集中的领域，和论文。这MSc-GH的建立也将促进杜克和其他大学之间的合作，在国外创建和发展实地和合作伙伴关系，这将使学生与社区合作伙伴一起工作，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分享实地地点，以便一个机构的学生可以利用另一个机构在实地的伙伴关系和方案。通过MSc-GH的设计和创建，新成立的DGHI将继续作为杜克全球健康计划的协调机构，在本科生，研究生，专业人员，博士后和教师层面。因此，DGHI将领导整个大学的努力，以协调招聘和雇用教师从一系列学科与全球卫生专业知识。该项目将在两个重要方面促进公共卫生。首先，通过在全球健康理学硕士学位课程的发展，而不是公共卫生，我们希望牢固地建立全球健康作为一门学科，并开发一个深刻的跨学科课程，具有强大的领域组成部分，可以由其他学术机构在美国和国外建模。其次，该计划将产生全面，知情和道德的领导者和调查者准备进行尖端研究，影响政策变化，并通过一系列方法在各种环境中提高卫生服务的质量。