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UNC-India Summit Partnership Models: Health and Medical Models

UNC-India Summit Partnership Models: Health and Medical Models. Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH Gillings School of Global Public Health. Who We Are. #1 public school of public health in the country 70-year history of global health leadership

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UNC-India Summit Partnership Models: Health and Medical Models

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  1. UNC-India SummitPartnership Models: Health and Medical Models Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH Gillings School of Global Public Health

  2. Who We Are • #1 public school of public health in the country • 70-year history of global health leadership • Educate more than 1,750 students each year with bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral & certificate programs • Train more than 20,000 health care workers each year • Home to the prestigious Water Institute

  3. Faculty Working in India • Margaret (Peggy) Bentley, PhD, Associate Dean for Global Health, professor of nutrition.   • Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH, clinical associate professor, public health leadership.   • Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, PhD, research professor of biostatistics   • Shelah Bloom, ScD, research assistant professor of maternal and child health • Barry Popkin, PhD, distinguished professor of nutrition • P.K. Sen, PhD, professor of biostatistics • Ilene Speizer, PhD, research associate professor of maternal and child health,

  4. Collaboration: Public Health Foundation of India

  5. Public Health Foundation of India - Projects • Training young faculty in public health knowledge, theory, and methods. • Focus areas include nutrition, biostatistics, health policy, and diseases of animal origin. • Measure Evaluation project, based at the Carolina Population Center and funded by USAID, undertakes Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) training programs. • Center for Global Learning developing online non-degree programs for India’s public health workforce • Reciprocal adjunct faculty appointments

  6. Collaboration: Deshpande Foundation • Founded in 1996 by Gururaj (Desh) and JaishreeDeshpande • Funds entrepreneurial, sustainable projects in their home region of northwestern Kamalaka. • Two UNC student teams supported by the Foundation • Designed a cutting-edge, sustainable sanitation project • Training program to reduce sexually transmitted infections and gender-based violence among young people.

  7. Collaboration: Gravis • Non-governmental organization that serves the rural poor in the Thar desert of Rajasthan • Two UNC public health students completed masters’ practica with Gravis, • surveying the health needs of the elderly population • developing a school • Director of Gravis, Dr. Prakash Tyagi, was a Humphrey Fellow at UNC’s School of Public Health in 2005-2006 • Partner in Global Learning Program, an on-line capacity building program for the global workforce.

  8. Collaboration: Sangath • Non-governmental organization committed to empowering existing community resources to provide appropriate physical, psychological and social therapies. • Two UNC public health students completed masters’ practica with Sangath, • researching stigma and discrimination against mental health patients by communities and the mental establishment • developing processes for developing mental health care through the primary care system • UNC faculty co-teach workshops on implementation science.

  9. Other Collaborations • National Institute of Nutrition in Hyderabad • 60-village study in Andhra Pradesh of infant feeding practices • Indian Regional Clinical Epidemiology Network • studied family violence in India as part of the WorldSAFE multi-country collaborative study • Christian Medical College, Vellore • founding mentor, Biostatistics Research and Training Center • Indian Statistical Institute • academic programs in biostatistics • International Center for Research on Women • evaluation of urban family programs in Uttar Pradesh

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