Developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Global Health

描述(由申请者提供)：在杜克大学开发全球健康跨学科研究生课程时，杜克全球健康研究所(DGHI)建议开发一个跨学科的全球健康科学硕士(MSc-GH)学位课程，目标是来自大学各校和院系的本科生、希望攻读双学位的研究生和专业学生，以及住院医师。该项目将为学生提供灵活的课程设置和接触多个学科的教师的机会，将培养出全面、知情和有道德的领导者和调查者，准备通过一系列方法在各种环境中进行尖端研究、影响政策变化并提高卫生服务质量。利用杜克大学丰富的跨学科研究传统，这个创新的项目将有来自医学院和大学双方的学校和系参与，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。一个代表这些学校的多学科委员会将制定课程和项目，其中可能包括在线或远程部分。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。该硕士-GH的建立还将促进杜克大学与其他大学之间的合作，在国外创建和发展实地站点和合作伙伴关系，使学生能够与社区合作伙伴合作，提供精心设计的、教育的和互惠互利的研究机会。因此，该项目将促进机构间共享实地场地，以便一所院校的学生可以利用另一所院校在外地的伙伴关系和方案。通过MSC-GH的设计和创建，新成立的DGHI将继续成为杜克大学在教育、研究和服务方面的全球健康倡议的协调机构，在本科生、研究生、专业人员、博士后和教职员工层面上。因此，DGHI将领导整个大学的努力，以协调从具有全球卫生专业知识的一系列学科招聘和聘用教师。该项目将在两个重要方面为公共卫生做出贡献。首先，通过开发与公共卫生相对的全球卫生科学硕士学位课程，我们希望坚定地确立全球卫生作为一门学科的地位，并开发一种具有很强的领域成分的深度跨学科课程，可以被美国和国外的其他学术机构效仿。其次，该计划将培养全面、知情和有道德的领导者和调查者，他们准备进行尖端研究，通过一系列方法在各种环境中实施政策变化并提高卫生服务质量。

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.