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Recorded presentation

Ian Lapp, PhD, School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10032, (212) 305-1204, mmulvanity@ceph.org

This panel will address various aspects of international public health education. These will include administrative and curricular aspects of setting up a successful public health degree program. It will also discuss culturally specific adaptations of MPH education.

This session will summarize the panel presenations and implications for global public health education. It will also discuss how this approach affects the human resource s ituation of less developed settings relative to more developed areas.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to

• Recognize core components of an international public health program
• Recognize the pitfalls and opportunities for starting public health education institutes in developing settings
• Assess quality of international public health programs; and
• Recognize the differences between programs and how the local environment helps share the public health curriculum

Keywords: International Health, MPH Curricula

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation