Creating Educational Partnerships for Global Health Dilemma Engaging Students in Program Design Educational value beyond the transfer of essential knowledge IH 744 Program Design for International Health Objectives ID: 798204
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Expanding the Ivory Tower
Creating Educational Partnerships for Global Health
Slide2Dilemma: Engaging Students in Program Design
Educational value beyond the transfer of essential knowledge
Slide3IH 744 Program Design for International Health- Objectives
Learn essential elements of program design & proposal development
Learn to translate evidence based results to action
Build team skills & learn from each other
Build confidence in professional skills
Slide4Expanding the Ivory Tower:
Value Added Objectives
Foster real world application of foundational knowledge
Provide professional networking opportunities
Form mutually beneficial practice-educational partnershipsAdd photo here
Slide5Small NGO
Clear mission and objectives
Willing to partner
Slide6Partnership in Action
Student consultants to COHI
Learned COHI’s mission & priorities
Researched areas for potential expansion
Identified funding sources
Researched, designed, & wrote program proposal
Presented proposals to COHI
Slide7Our Partner: Circle of Health International (COHI)
Mission:
Working with women and their communities in times of crisis and disaster to ensure access to quality reproductive, maternal and newborn care
Founded in 2004 by BUSPH Alum
Slide8Results of the Partnership:
Our Partner’s Perspective
Provided potential programs for future work
Continued support of COHI in a volunteer fashion amongst BU students
Provided quality work that COHI could not complete, given limited means/personnel
Allowed for positive feedback on current COHI projects and ideas for programming
Slide9Results of the partnership:
Our students perspective
Fully engaged in the learning process
Confident of newly acquired skills
Achieved learning objectives
BUSPH The Insider, Michelle Salzman, June 2010
Slide10Student Feedback on the Course
Real-world connection
“Having us develop an intervention program for COHI gave us all far greater incentive and ownership over the work we produced”
“I really felt like a consultant and like what I was doing was important and valuable. This was learn-by-doing to its ultimate extent”
Multiple professional skills
“This class builds strengths of students on many levels.... a host of valuable skills that can and will be used in a professional life of a student”
Depth of student engagement
“…suggest that students stock up their refrigerators, and make sure they have two-weeks worth of clean clothing because there will not be time to do much other than IH744 work”
Slide11Academic Benefits
Fully engaged & motivated students
Meets practice-based criteria
Opportunity to mentor students
Students perform above & beyond the norm
Slide12Expanding the Ivory Tower: Application
Fostering connections in the professional world
Small businesses and organizations
Benefit from the students’ work
Willing partners
mutually benefit both students and partners
Slide13James Wolff –
jwolff@bu.edu
Monita
Baba
Djara
–
monitab@bu.edu
Leilani
Johnson -
leilani@cohintl.org
Thank you!