A Passport for a New Era of Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica B. Landry ◽  
Michael B. Pitt ◽  
Nicole E. St Clair ◽  
Sheridan Langford ◽  
Risha L. Moskalewicz
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Individual Learning ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
New Era ◽  
Curricular Resources ◽  
Busy Schedule ◽  
Novel Model ◽  
Available Resources

Over the last several years, there has been a surge of readily available curricular resources for global health (GH) educators that theoretically has enabled them to overcome the barrier of needing to create new content for their programs. Despite this increase in available resources, integrating GH education into the already busy schedule of residency is a common challenge to the growing number of GH track directors. In this perspectives piece, GH educators from multiple institutions will share a novel model for packaging, administering, and monitoring GH educational curricula. This model transposes traditional GH learning objectives into self-paced, longitudinal maps of opportunities suitable for the time-intensive demands of residency, with flexibility for individual learning preferences and built-in tracking mechanisms.

scholarly journals Editorial: Education in Europe and the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-402
Author(s):  
Sotiria Grek ◽  
Paolo Landri
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
New Era ◽  
European Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research And Policy

Although the global Covid-19 pandemic is still affecting our lives enormously, we know that a new era of deep reflection about ‘normality’, our planet and our existence on it has also begun. The ‘Education in Europe and the Covid-19 Pandemic’ double Special Issue intends to be part of this reflexive discussion about the post-pandemic European education policy and research space. This is a space shaped continuously by crises and opportunities, by utopias of a shared progressive and liberal education for all, but also the dystopias of nationalism, populism, climate destruction and now a global health emergency. This editorial offers an overview of the current crisis context and of the articles; further, it positions the journal within the post-pandemic research and policy debate about how to understand the impact of the pandemic on the changing forms of education and its enduring inequalities.

scholarly journals A new workforce for a new era: characteristics of Master of Science in Global Health students

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 356
Author(s):  
S. Galvin ◽  
A. Doobay-Persaud ◽  
C. Peterson ◽  
D. Young ◽  
R. Murphy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
New Era ◽  
Master Of Science

An Undergraduate Medical Education Framework for Refugee and Migrant Health: Curriculum Development and Conceptual Approaches

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Gruner ◽  
Yael Feinberg ◽  
Maddie J. Venables ◽  
Syeda Shanza Hashmi ◽  
Ammar Saad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Migrant Health ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Health Curriculum ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Curriculum Framework

Abstract Background: International migration, especially forced migration, highlights important medical training needs including cross-cultural communication, human rights, as well as global health competencies for physical and mental healthcare. This paper responds to the call for a ‘trauma informed’ refugee health curriculum framework from medical students and global health faculty. Methods: We used a mixed-methods approach to develop a guiding medical undergraduate refugee and migrant health curriculum framework. We conducted a scoping review, key informant faculty interviews and e-surveys, and then, integrated our results into a competency-based curriculum framework with values and principles, learning objectives and curriculum delivery methods and evaluation. Results: The majority of our Canadian medical faculty respondents reported some refugee health learning objectives within their undergraduate medical curriculum. The most prevalent learning objective topics included access to care barriers, social determinants of health for refugees, cross-cultural communication skills, global health epidemiology, challenges and pitfalls of providing care and mental health. We report competency-based learning objectives and primary and secondary topics. We also discuss curriculum delivery and evaluation methods such as community service learning with reflection exercises. Conclusions: This guiding undergraduate medical education curriculum suggests integrating cross-cultural communication skills, exploration of access to care barriers for newcomers, and system approaches to improve refugee and migrant healthcare. Programs should also consider social determinants of health, community service learning and the development of links to community resettlement and refugee organizations.

Reducing the Knowledge Gap in Global Health Delivery

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-165
Author(s):  
Andres Garchitorena ◽  
Megan B. Murray ◽  
Bethany Hedt-Gauthier ◽  
Paul E. Farmer ◽  
Matthew H. Bonds
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Development ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
New Era ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Universal Health

Randomized control trials (RCTs) are considered to be the gold standard for impact evaluation in international development and they are associated with a new era of evidence-based global health policies. However, there are inherent challenges in using RCTs to answer some of the most important questions in global health: why, if solutions are known, affordable at scale, and supported by existing evidence, do hundreds of millions of people lack access to essential health services? A lack of clarity on appropriate research methods for strengthening health systems has corresponded to a lack of investment in more complex and adaptive systems of integrated care delivery. This chapter reviews the use of RCTs in global health, highlighting major contributions, and addressing some pressing priorities in implementation research at a time when the Sustainable Development Goals emphasize the importance of sector-wide approaches, such as integrated primary care and universal health coverage.

Global Health Education for Medical Students: When Learning Objectives Include Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 1022-1027
Author(s):  
Alison M. Bales ◽  
Anthony R. Oddo ◽  
David J. Dennis ◽  
Robert C. Siska ◽  
Echo VanderWal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Global Health Education

Learning Preferences and ProbLem-based discussion sessions: a study with turkish university maritime students

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 1295-1302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kalkan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Individual Learning ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Learning Preference ◽  
Kinesthetic Learning ◽  
Psychomotor Domain

The purpose of this study was twofold: analyzing any likely effects of problem-based discussion sessions on promoting the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domain; and scrutinizing the effects of individual learning preferences on this promotion. A two-part questionnaire was administered. The first set of questions was based on the Higher-Order Thinking and Problem Solving Checklist (Borich, 2004). The second had 13 statements derived from Visual/Aural/Reading-Writing/Kinesthetic (VARK) Learning Preferences Questionnaire (Fleming, 2001). The data showed that problem-based discussion sessions contribute to promoting cognitive and metacognitive domains and also that the prevailing individual learning preference of the randomly chosen sample was kinesthetic, learning through self-practicing and self-experiencing.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN E-MODULE KALKULUS I SEBAGAI PANDUAN MAHASISWA UNTUK MENGOPTIMALKAN INDIVIDUAL LEARNING

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Sunismi Sunismi ◽  
Abdul Halim Fathani
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Individual Learning ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Calculus I ◽  
Student Guidance ◽  
D Model

The purpose of this study is to arrange the e-module of Calculus I as a student guidance in optimizing individual learning. The method used here is a development research method. The model applied in this research is Four-D which includes stages of define, design, develop, and disseminate. The development results according to Four-D model are as follows: in the Define stage, it is known that the results of the analysis to the needs of student and lecturer shows that most of the students have difficulties in learning Calculus I because the lecturer uses a text book. In the text book, the concept is presented abstractly that makes the students difficult to understand. Hence, it is necessary to develop teaching materials which are easier to understand by the students, one of them is e-module. In the Design stage, the initial draft of e-module of Calculus I is designed which includes introduction (there are preface, instructions in using e-module, material descriptions, prerequisites, and learning objectives), the material and examples, exercises, summary, competency tests (in interactive way), the solutions, feedbacks, and a list of references. The Develop stage is where the prototype of e-module is created and it means the e-module is established. Then, initial trials related to the content of e-module are performed through the assistances from the expert and the lecturer of Calculus I. The appraisements of both the expert and the lecturer explain that the e-module is valid, so that the content of the e-module of Calculus I in this study is proper to be established.

WHO and Other United Nations Agencies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
West African ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
New Era ◽  
World Community ◽  
Important Health

WHO’s establishment in 1948 marked a new era, and “Health for All” became the hope. For decades, WHO was prominent in GHG, coordinating worldwide efforts against smallpox, handling international reporting, and managing disease outbreaks through the IHR. Still today, the world community expects WHO to solve global health governance problems, and maintain its unique coordinating function. It is the only agency with authority to develop and implement international health law. But today’s WHO is a weakened institution, riddled with budgetary problems, power politics, and diminished reputation. WHO’s failings in the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak demonstrated that it lacks the capacity to prevent and contain pandemics. Nor does it have coordination capacity, accountability, a master global health plan, or reliable compliance mechanisms. WHO’s vision of “Health for All” remains unfulfilled. Other UN agencies have important health functions but present vexing issues of their own.

scholarly journals Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Energy Systems and Electric Power Grids—A Review of the Challenges Ahead

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1056
Author(s):  
Aviad Navon ◽  
Ram Machlev ◽  
David Carmon ◽  
Abiodun Emmanuel Onile ◽  
Juri Belikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Power Grids ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
New Era ◽  
Term Operation ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The Many

The COVID-19 pandemic represents not just a global health crisis, but may signal the beginning of a new era of economic activity, the potential consequences of which we currently do not fully understand. In this context, the mid-to-long-range impacts of the pandemic on the energy sector have been studied extensively in the last few months. Despite these efforts, the pandemic still raises many open questions concerning the long-term operation and planning of power systems. For instance, how will the pandemic affect the integration of renewable energy sources? Should current power system expansion plans change in light of the COVID-19 pandemic? What new tools should be provided to support system operators during global health crises? It is the purpose of this paper to better understand the many aspects of these open questions by reviewing the relevant recent literature and by analyzing measured data. We point out the main challenges that the pandemic introduced by presenting patterns of electricity generation and demand, frequency deviations, and load forecasting. Moreover, we suggest directions for future research that may assist in coping with the mentioned challenges. We hope that this paper will trigger fruitful discussions and encourage further research on these important emerging topics.

scholarly journals Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 2. Planning, coordination, and partnerships

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Mahmood Afzal ◽  
George W. Pariyo ◽  
Zohra S. Lassi ◽  
Henry B. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Community Health Workers ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Human Resources For Health ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
New Era

Abstract Background Community health workers (CHWs) play a critical role in grassroots healthcare and are essential for achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. While there is a critical shortage of essential health workers in low- and middle-income countries, WHO and international partners have reached a consensus on the need to expand and strengthen CHW programmes as a key element in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The COVID-19 pandemic has further revealed that emerging health challenges require quick local responses such as those utilizing CHWs. This is the second paper of our 11-paper supplement, “Community health workers at the dawn of a new era”. Our objective here is to highlight questions, challenges, and strategies for stakeholders to consider while planning the introduction, expansion, or strengthening of a large-scale CHW programme and the complex array of coordination and partnerships that need to be considered. Methods The authors draw on the outcomes of discussions during key consultations with various government leaders and experts from across policy, implementation, research, and development organizations in which the authors have engaged in the past decade. These include global consultations on CHWs and global forums on human resources for health (HRH) conferences between 2010 and 2014 (Montreux, Bangkok, Recife, Washington DC). They also build on the authors’ direct involvement with the Global Health Workforce Alliance. Results Weak health systems, poor planning, lack of coordination, and failed partnerships have produced lacklustre CHW programmes in countries. This paper highlights the three issues that are generally agreed as being critical to the long-term effectiveness of national CHW programmes—planning, coordination, and partnerships. Mechanisms are available in many countries such as the UHC2030 (formerly International Health Partnership), country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs), and those focusing on the health workforce such as the national Human Resources for Health Observatory and the Country Coordination and Facilitation (CCF) initiatives introduced by the Global Health Workforce Alliance. Conclusion It is imperative to integrate CHW initiatives into formal health systems. Multidimensional interventions and multisectoral partnerships are required to holistically address the challenges at national and local levels, thereby ensuring synergy among the actions of partners and stakeholders. In order to establish robust and institutionalized processes, coordination is required to provide a workable platform and conducive environment, engaging all partners and stakeholders to yield tangible results.

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