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New frontiers in global health leadership: Building strong health systems to respond to non-communicable diseases – a versatile training toolkit for professionals and graduate students
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Karen Heckert, PhD, MPH, MSW,
Global Health Institute, Health Promotion Sciences Division, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Cecilia Rosales, MD, MS,
Community, Environment & Policy Division, Public Health Practice Program, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
Agnes Attakai, MPA,
Community, Environment and Policy Division, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Robert Guerrero, MBA,
Arizona Department of Health Services, Office of Border Health, Arizona Department of Health Services, Tucson, AZ
Raymond Andrade, EdD,
Western Region Public Health Training Center, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Significance: The escalating burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) worldwide poses a serious challenge for health systems globally and locally. This training toolkit is based on contributions by esteemed faculty at the New Frontiers in Global Health Leadership Forum hosted by the Global Health Institute at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona in partnership with the Tohono O'odham Department of Health & Human Services, the US-Mexico Border Health Commission and the Arizona Public Health Training Center, pursuant to the United Nations High Level Meeting on NCDs. Objective: This session will introduce participants to a user-friendly training toolkit designed to guide the learning and application of effective health systems strengthening approaches in global or local settings. Methods: The structure of the toolkit is based on four building blocks of the World Health Organization's health systems strengthening model; health information & referral systems, health workforce development, integration and quality improvement. The role of leadership is the focus of the fifth training module. The Forum's daily policy discussions and global and local case study presentations were video-taped and are featured in the self-instructional modules. Each module includes learning objectives, reading assignments, an application exercise to analyze lessons learned, a checklist for self-assessing knowledge and skill development and a bibliography for further reading. Results & Implications: Three instructional formats are planned to accommodate different learners and training venues. The New Frontiers Training Toolkit will help narrow the knowledge and skill gap to strengthen health systems locally and globally.
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Chronic disease management and prevention
Public health or related education
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Learning Objectives:
Analyze the linkages between local and global approaches to address the rapidly escalating burden of non-communicable diseases worldwide.
Define the training toolkit’s health systems strengthening knowledge and skills competencies.
Describe the instructional design methods utilized by the training toolkit to build the capacity of students and practitioners.
Keyword(s): Public Health Education, Professional Development
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a medical doctor from Bolivia currently working on my MPH Internship to develop the New Frontiers in Global Health Leadership: Building Strong Health Systems to Respond to Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)Training Toolkit. My strong clinical experience in developing countries, clinical research experience and a certification in higher education gives me a comprehensive perspective of the new challenges the health systems are facing with the worldwide pandemic of NCDs, especially in resource limited countries.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
