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The Global Health Institute

Debra Olson, DNP, MPH

Professor and Associate Dean for Education

Why Global?

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Why Global?
“Public health challenges are no longer just local,
national or regional.
regional They are global
global. They are no
longer just within the domain of public health
specialists. They are among the key challenges to our
societies. They are political and cross-sectoral. They
are intimately linked to environment and
development. They are key to national, regional and
security ”
global security.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Why Teaching and Learning?

Gaps in Access - need for a coordinated system-wide approach

to assure access to p
public health training
g and education

Gaps in Competency – need for public health professionals to

respond to critical public health issues

Gaps in Capacity - need to stimulate the interest of future

generations of the public health workforce, to increase the
supply of a well
well-prepared
prepared public health workforce
workforce, and to
address the consequences of major changes in the provision of
personal health services and in provision of population focused
services

Why Teaching and Learning?

Extend knowledge: Advance a

learning platform that delivers
technology enhanced online and onsite
short-term intensive educational
experiences as meets the educational
deliveryy needs of a global
g workforce

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Teaching and Learning in a Digital World

Why Uganda?

Iceland – 2008

India – 2009

Uganda –2010

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Why Uganda?

1. Extend knowledge: Advance a learning platform that

delivers technology enhanced online and onsite short
short-
term intensive educational experiences as meets the
educational delivery needs of a global workforce
2. Apply knowledge: Engage experts among the
University of Minnesota faculty and global communities
to support a diversity of learning needs
3 Exchange knowledge: Partner with institutions around
3.
the globe to prepare the next generation of health
professionals where they will live, work and play

Exchange

Apply
INDIA Extend
Environmental Obesity
Health ON-LINE ICELAND

Maternal Child Informatics

Health

HONG
Learner
KONG Health Care Infectious
Management Disease THAILAND
ON-SITE

Evidence Based Food

Practice Safety EUROPE

CHINA Clinical
Trials
MAINLAND LATIN & SOUTH
AMERICA
AFRICA

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Why the Global Health Institute?

An Immersion Experience for One Health Approaches

Z
Zoonotic
ti Diseases,
Di
Global Public Health Systems,
Participatory Epidemiology
Applied Biostatistics

Experiential Exercises

Why – Why – Why – Why - Why?

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Why One Health?