Multi Stakeholder Planning Workshop for the Development of Master of Public Health in non-communicable diseases at the KNUST School of Public Health

项目总结/摘要 低收入和中等收入国家（LMIC）的非传染性疾病负担日益加重， 健康威胁，这可能会减缓实现《联合国防治非传染性疾病战略》所规定的非传染性疾病目标的进展。 可持续发展目标（SDGs）。这个项目的主要目标是培养一个公共卫生硕士 非传染性疾病研究和管理方案，以预防和控制非传染性疾病， 在精心挑选的社区建立一个康复和干预服务点。的具体目标 规划过程是：1。制定一个培训课程的公共卫生计划的硕士慢性非 传染病我们将召集一个多方利益攸关方小组， 非传染性疾病的多学科课程。建立慢性非传染性疾病英才中心 研究，预防和控制。我们将在公共卫生学院建立一个中心， 专注于非传染性疾病研究。学校将为指定该中心提供空间和资源， 确保将人力和物力资源用于在学校内指定中心。这 中心将定期为决策者和研究人员之间的对话创造平台，以弥合差距 证据与实践3.确定和实施预防、控制和康复战略， 选定的社区。作为拟议培训的一部分，我们将在项目实施中选择社区 学生和教师将合作进行研究，并提供预防和 康复服务，使学生获得实践经验。4.建立学生和工作人员 交换计划。为了深化和维持KNUST，大学之间的合作， 宾夕法尼亚大学和博茨瓦纳大学，我们将制定学生和工作人员交流计划的模式。 在规划过程结束时，我们将制定一个全面和多学科的培训， 慢性非传染性疾病控制、预防和管理课程，并建立一个中心 在非传染性疾病研究方面的卓越成就。我们将开展以下主要活动，以实现我们的目标：1。 成立由主要学院组成的内部课程发展委员会， 制定培训课程。2.组织利益攸关方参与课程开发 举办讲习班，以促进编制多学科培训课程制定模式， 合作院校之间的学生及教职员交流计划;申请并获取程序 国家认证委员会的认证。我们建议在2010年期间重点关注以下非传染性疾病： 培训，因为他们在加纳的巨大负担：药物滥用和误用、伤害、精神疾病和 代谢综合征

Project Summary/Abstract The increasing burden of non-communicable diseases in low and middle incomes (LMICs) is a major public health threat that can potentially slow the progress towards the attainment of the NCD targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The broad goal of this project is to develop a master of public health program in non-communicable diseases research and management for the prevention and control of NCDs with a service point for rehabilitation and intervention in carefully selected communities. The specific objectives of the planning process are: 1. Develop a training curriculum for a master of public health program in chronic non- communicable diseases. We will bring together a multi-stakeholder group to contribute to the development of multidisciplinary curriculum for NCDs.2. Establish a centre of excellence in chronic non-communicable diseases research, prevention and control. We will set up a centre in the School of Public Health that will be solely dedicated NCDs research. The School will dedicate space and resources for the designation of the centre and ensure that human and material resources are dedicated to the designation of the centre within the school. This centre will periodically create platform for dialogue between policy-makers and researchers to bridge the gap between evidence and practice 3. Identify and implement preventive, control and rehabilitative strategies in selected communities. As part of the proposed training, we will select communities in the project implementation region where students and faculty will collaboratively undertake research and provide preventive and rehabilitative services to enable students to acquire hands-on experience. 4. Establish students and staff exchange programs. In order to deepen and sustain the collaboration between KNUST, University of Pennsylvania and University of Botswana, we will develop modalities for students and staff exchange program. At the end of the planning process, we would have developed a comprehensive and multidisciplinary training curriculum in chronic non-communicable diseases control, prevention and management and establish a centre of excellence for research on NCDs. We will undertake the following major activities to realise our objectives: 1. Establish an in-house curriculum development Committee comprising of key faculty to spearhead the development of the training curriculum. 2. Organize a stakeholder engagement curriculum development workshop to facilitate the development of a multidisciplinary training curriculum 3. Develop modalities for students and staff exchange program between the collaborating institutions and 4. Apply and obtain program accreditation from the National Accreditation Board. We propose to focus on the following NCDs during the training because of their substantial burden in Ghana: substance abuse and misuse, injuries, mental illness and metabolic syndrome.