Supported by a $300,000 grant from the Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundation, this new programme has been created in partnership with ECOHOST at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Open Society Institute (OSI), through its Network Public Health Programme, supports the development of graduate-level, population-based teaching programmes of public health in 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.
In collaboration with the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region, OSI has sponsored the international peer review of teaching programmes of public health in a number of institutions of higher education and abetted the strengthening of their training. In a number of schools of medicine where traditional social hygiene educational paradigms prevail, OSI has worked to precipitate through grant funding and training contemporary models of multidisciplinary, graduate-level, population-based public health education. As an outcome of these activities, OSI has identified a number of strong teaching programmes and stable institutions that have the capacity to develop sound public health policy.
Public health priorities in Europe and Central Asia are changing. Many countries are undergoing large-scale health systems reform. Aimed at public health educators in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, the new public health programme teaches health leaders how to respond to changing illness patterns, growing threats of infectious diseases, high levels of mental ill health and other non-communicable diseases, consumer expectations and research shortages. Taught by key thought-leaders, the programme covers:
· adult learning and teaching
· strategic management, leadership and organisational change
· public health
for more information, contact Soalen.Sittampalam@imperial.ac.ul
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