UVa Framework Program in Global Health

描述（由申请人提供）：弗吉尼亚大学全球健康中心（CGH）成立于2001年，以23年的地理医学项目为基础。全球健康中心促进教师和学生参与解决全球健康问题的多学科研究和服务项目的发展。通过与国际同事和机构的现有合作，CGH每年资助40多名弗吉尼亚大学学生在国外指导全球卫生研究和服务项目。此外，每年有8-10名国际研究人员从我们的合作机构中经过竞争性选拔，来到弗吉尼亚大学与弗吉尼亚大学的教师导师进行培训和研究。目前已有80多名这样的研究员在弗吉尼亚大学接受培训，并且100%的人都回到了自己的国家，帮助建立合作项目，包括在巴西、菲律宾、加纳和南非建立的跨大学全球卫生中心。在过去的四年里，弗吉尼亚大学全球健康相关课程和活动的数量呈爆炸式增长。本科生和专业学生都形成了与全球健康相关的兴趣小组，学生对全球健康方面的信息、职业建议和机会的需求显著增长。因此，我们认识到需要一个全球卫生框架方案，以建立一个可持续的战略，将全球卫生纳入整个大学的课程。我们已经看到个别课程是如何发展和成功的。该框架方案将加强现有课程和方案之间的联系，使全球卫生工作的学分制度化和正规化，包括学位课程的发展，并促进为大学内部和我们的国际伙伴之间的合作创造新的机会。我们的框架项目将汇集弗吉尼亚大学的三个主要合作伙伴：医学和护理学院，以及艺术和科学学院。它将包括5个组成部分：1)全球卫生课程工作组，由全球卫生中心协调，召集来自医学院、护理学院和文理学院的8-10名教员，规划和实施全球卫生课程，并协调各自学院的参与。2)工作组将为全校本科生、研究生和专业学生开发多学科全球卫生课程。3)全校范围内的会议安排将邀请来自国际合作机构的访问学者，包括弗吉尼亚大学的教师、国际研究员和学生，讨论全球健康问题。4)通过网站资源、实习安排以及来自前全球卫生学者、研究员和教师的指导，扩大全球卫生职业规划服务。5)一项全校范围的协调计划，为弗吉尼亚大学的全球健康项目筹集资金。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Founded in 2001, the University of Virginia's Center for Global Health (CGH) builds on a 23-year program in Geographic Medicine. The CGH promotes the engagement of faculty and students in the development of multidisciplinary research and service projects that address global health issues. Through existing collaborations with international colleagues and institutions, CGH annually sponsors over 40 UVa students in mentored global health research and service projects abroad. In addition, 8-10 international research fellows, competitively selected from our collaborating institutions, come to UVa each year for training and research with UVa faculty mentors. Over 80 such fellows have now trained at UVa, and 100% have returned to their home countries to help build collaborative programs that include trans-university Centers for Global Health in Brazil, Philippines, Ghana, and South Africa. In the last four years, the number of global health-related courses and activities at UVa has exploded. Both undergraduate and professional students have formed interest groups related to global health, and student demand for information, career advice, and opportunities in global health has grown markedly. We therefore recognize the need for a Framework Program in Global Health to build a sustainable strategy to incorporate global health into curricular offerings across the university. We have seen how individual courses can develop and succeed. The Framework Program will reinforce links between existing courses and programs, institutionalize and formalize credit for work in global health, including the development of degree programs, and foster the creation of new opportunities for collaboration within the University and between our international partners. Our Framework Program will bring together three principal partners at UVa: the Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the College of Arts and Sciences. It will include 5 components: 1) A Global Health Curriculum Working Group, coordinated by the Center for Global Health, to convene 8-10 faculty members from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Arts and Sciences to plan and implement global health curricula and coordinate participation by their respective schools. 2) The Working Group will develop multidisciplinary global health curricula for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students across the university. 3) A University-wide conference schedule engaging UVa faculty, international fellows, and students in global health issues will invite visiting scholars from collaborating international institutions. 4) Expanded global health career planning services through website resources, internship placement, and mentoring from former global health scholars, fellows, and faculty contacts. 5) A coordinated, university-wide plan to raise funds to sustain global health programs at UVa.