A Global Health Framework at Tufts University

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是根据PAR-05-050全球卫生框架计划提交的。塔夫茨大学作为一个整体，拥有广泛的全球卫生相关教育、奖学金和研究组合。然而，这些活动至今还没有明显的联系。我们建议为塔夫茨大学的全球健康项目建立一个管理框架。它将被安置在塔夫茨大学的公共卫生和家庭医学系，这也是塔夫茨大学公共卫生项目的所在地。我们还建议在塔夫茨大学开设跨学科的全球健康课程。在这项努力中，我们不仅将利用塔夫茨大学现有的智慧、专业知识和资源，还将利用非洲、印度和其他地方的伙伴组织的资源。该项目将特别利用由美国国立卫生研究院路线图课程开发基金支持的塔夫茨大学新的和创新的基于互联网的教育努力的优势。这个项目在塔夫茨大学得到了最高水平的支持。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健康集中课程，该课程将向塔夫茨大学的所有学生开放。公共卫生项目与塔夫茨大学的大多数学院，包括兽医学院、营养学院、工程学院和弗莱彻国际法与外交学院，都有正在进行的合作联合学位课程。通过这种集中机制，我们将在各种场所与这些合作学校的相关教职员工和学生合作，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发展，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师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。它包括发展经济学、灾难援助、营养不良和水的安全处理等主题。我们的项目将支持学生的教育和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.