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Public Health Leadership For An Open Society

Public Health Leadership For An Open Society. Nina Schwalbe, Viorel Soltan Program Officer: Noah Simmons. Promoting an Open Society Agenda. Growing recognition of importance of public health as a profession Core group of strong teaching programs Multidisciplinary public health education.

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Public Health Leadership For An Open Society

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  1. Public Health Leadership For An Open Society Nina Schwalbe, Viorel Soltan Program Officer: Noah Simmons

  2. Promoting an Open Society Agenda • Growing recognition of importance of public health as a profession • Core group of strong teaching programs • Multidisciplinary public health education

  3. Promoting an Open Society Agenda THE ISSUE • Need to focus on growing health inequity which particularly affects vulnerable groups • Develop solid evidence for policy making • Competency to document, advocate and impact policy

  4. Promoting an Open Society Agenda THE AGENTS OF CHANGE • Individuals from selected training institutions (proposed: Debrecen SPH, Kaunas FPH, Moscow MMA, Zagreb ASSPH, Yerevan CHS/AUA) • Potential centers of excellence • Dynamic faculty sought

  5. Promoting an Open Society Agenda THE TRAINING VENUE • Host training institution through targeted tender: either London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & Imperial College or Wagner School of Public Service, NYU • Host institution with proven capacity to instill policy-oriented research & advocacy competencies • Training to include: public speaking & advocacy; peer-reviewed applied research & writing on policy issues; development of syllabus for a course, et alt.

  6. Promoting an Open Society Agenda THE SKILLS • Competencies • Conduct & formulate policy-oriented research • Network with local and regional peers • Communication skills • Leadership skills • Applied skills : in-country supervised project

  7. Promoting an Open Society Agenda THE FOCUS • Populations and Area Focus: • Populations- illicit drug users, people with mental disabilities, prisoners, the dying, ethnic and sexual minorities • Area- TB & HIV epidemics ; Tobacco Control

  8. Promoting an Open Society Agenda • 2-year initiative, 4-6 faculty per semester : 16-24 fellows trained over two years • First cohort spring/summer 2005 • $300,000 yearly • Funding includes faculty participation in range of OSI-Seminars

  9. Promoting an Open Society Agenda • Policy “ Public Health professionals across the disciplines of public health cannot be fully effective without an understanding of how policies are made and put into practice ” Who will keep the Public Healthy? Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2003

  10. Promoting an Open Society Agenda • Policy-oriented research “ Schools of public health have a responsibility to work with communities to educate them about what it takes to be healthy and to learn from them how to improve public health interventions. ” Who will keep the Public Healthy? Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2003

  11. Promoting an Open Society Agenda • Public health faculty and professionals as advocates for policy evaluation & innovation • Policy change on key issues • Future generations: impact on public health curricula

  12. Promoting an Open Society Agenda

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