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  • Public Health Workforce Development in India via Online Short-Courses

Public Health Workforce Development in India via Online Short-Courses

Monday, July 16, 2018, 8:30 AM – Thursday, July 19, 2018, 6:00 PM

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Workshop timings are as follows: July 16 & 17: 8.30 AM-6 PM, July 18 & 19: 10 AM-1 PM

A strong public health (PH) workforce is essential in every country for mitigating critical global health challenges including the emergence of new pandemics, rise of the incidence of non-communicable diseases, and exposures to environmental contaminants. However, lack of formal public health training opportunities for community health workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) poses a significant threat to the development of PH workforce. India desperately needs a large number of trained and skilled community workers to properly implement PH projects for 1.3 billion people. To address the critical need of formal public health training for developing countries, faculty and staff from IU School of Public Health-Bloomington have developed a set of online, computer-based training courses for PH workers who have never received formal training on core public health disciplines. The short-courses known as “Public Health and You” (PHY) were initially available to the U.S. workforce free of cost and later several culturally adapted international versions were derived from the parent U.S. version. A culturally adaptable PHY has been recently developed for India consisting of five courses:

  1. Introduction to Public Health
  2. Environmental Health
  3. Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  4. Behavioral, Social and Community Health
  5. Public Health Administration

All of these courses aim to increase the knowledge of the workforce and provide a common language of public health concepts and terms. We will organize training and workshop for staff and students from our partner organizations and beyond along with senior faculty and researchers who will work as facilitators to help us develop an Indian version of Public Health and You. The following three objectives will be accomplished during these events:

  1. Presentation on the current version of PHY for our India partner organizations
  2. Pilot training for staff and students who are currently involved in public health projects or will become public health professionals in future
  3. Obtaining feedback from facilitators and trainees so that suggestions can be incorporated to develop a culturally adaptable India version of PHY within a short period of time

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Khalid Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Core Faculty, Dhar India Studies Program
School of Public Health Building Room 025E
Indiana University-Bloomington
E-mail: kmkhan@indiana.edu; kmk2129@gmail.com
Phone: +1-812-856-2229 (Office); +1-646-305-2566 (Cellular)

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