2001 marks the first year in practice of a stunning transformation in Cuba's National School of Public Health. Realizing that 40 years of unique public health experience and results begged for a redefinition of the school's role, Cuban health educators and practitioners spent 12 months designing a different model of learning. The authors, key leaders of this process, describe the new school as one which: --Develops leaders, professors and professionals for the public health system, thus merging the heretofore separate functions of post-graduate medical and public health training. --Offers a strategic space within the health system for reflection, analysis and creative projections; a school charged with advising policy and practice, finding solutions to pressing health problems. --Draws on, engages and exists within the entire public health system at all levels, as a multi-center institution. Not a 'school linked to health services', but rather a 'school within health services'; where the health system becomes laboratory and classroom, and communities and their leaders, participants. --Constitutes its departments and faculty based on the health sytem's priorities for improving the population's health status, attracting professors proven as practitioners and leaders in their field. One year later, the authors review the implementation of this strategy.
Learning Objectives: At the session's close, participants will be able to:
Keywords: Public Health Curricula, International
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Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Escuela Nacional de Salud Publica de Cuba
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