unc-india summit partnership models: health and medical models rohit ramaswamy, phd, mph gillings...
TRANSCRIPT
UNC-India SummitPartnership Models: Health and Medical Models
UNC-India SummitPartnership Models: Health and Medical Models
Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Who We AreWho We Are• #1 #1 publicpublic school of public health in school of public health in
the countrythe country
• 70-year history of global health 70-year history of global health leadershipleadership
• Educate more than 1,750 students Educate more than 1,750 students each year with bachelor’s, master’s, each year with bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral & certificate programsdoctoral & certificate programs
• Train more than 20,000 health care Train more than 20,000 health care workers each yearworkers each year
• Home to the prestigious Water Home to the prestigious Water Institute Institute
• 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,
Faculty Working in IndiaFaculty Working in India
Public Health Foundation of India - ProjectsPublic 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
Collaboration: Deshpande FoundationCollaboration: Deshpande Foundation• Founded in 1996 by Gururaj (Desh)
and Jaishree Deshpande• 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.
Collaboration: GravisCollaboration: 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.
Collaboration: SangathCollaboration: 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.
Other CollaborationsOther 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