UNC-India SummitPartnership Models: Health and Medical Models

UNC-India SummitPartnership Models: Health and Medical Models

Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH

Gillings School of Global Public Health

Who We AreWho We Are• #1 #1 publicpublic school of public health in school of public health in

the countrythe country

• 70-year history of global health 70-year history of global health leadershipleadership

• Educate more than 1,750 students Educate more than 1,750 students each year with bachelor’s, master’s, each year with bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral & certificate programsdoctoral & certificate programs

• Train more than 20,000 health care Train more than 20,000 health care workers each yearworkers each year

• Home to the prestigious Water Home to the prestigious Water Institute Institute

• Margaret (Peggy) Bentley, PhD, Associate Dean for Global Health, professor of nutrition.  

• Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH, clinical associate professor, public health leadership.  

• Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, PhD, research professor of biostatistics  

• Shelah Bloom, ScD, research assistant professor of maternal and child health

• Barry Popkin, PhD, distinguished professor of nutrition • P.K. Sen, PhD, professor of biostatistics • Ilene Speizer, PhD, research associate professor of

maternal and child health,

Faculty Working in IndiaFaculty Working in India

Collaboration: Public Health Foundation of India

Collaboration: Public Health Foundation of India

Public Health Foundation of India - ProjectsPublic Health Foundation of India - Projects

• Training young faculty in public health knowledge, theory, and methods.

• Focus areas include nutrition, biostatistics, health policy, and diseases of animal origin.

• Measure Evaluation project, based at the Carolina Population Center and funded by USAID, undertakes Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) training programs.

• Center for Global Learning developing online non-degree programs for India’s public health workforce

• Reciprocal adjunct faculty appointments

Collaboration: Deshpande FoundationCollaboration: Deshpande Foundation• Founded in 1996 by Gururaj (Desh)

and Jaishree Deshpande• Funds entrepreneurial, sustainable

projects in their home region of northwestern Kamalaka.

• Two UNC student teams supported by the Foundation – Designed a cutting-edge, sustainable

sanitation project

– Training program to reduce sexually transmitted infections and gender-

based violence among young people.

Collaboration: GravisCollaboration: Gravis• Non-governmental organization that

serves the rural poor in the Thar desert of Rajasthan

• Two UNC public health students completed masters’ practica with Gravis,– surveying the health needs of the elderly

population – developing a school

• Director of Gravis, Dr. Prakash Tyagi, was a Humphrey Fellow at UNC’s School of Public Health in 2005-2006

• Partner in Global Learning Program, an on-line capacity building program for the global workforce.

Collaboration: SangathCollaboration: Sangath

• Non-governmental organization committed to empowering existing community resources to provide appropriate physical, psychological and social therapies.

• Two UNC public health students completed masters’ practica with Sangath,– researching stigma and discrimination

against mental health patients by communities and the mental establishment

– developing processes for developing mental health care through the primary care system

• UNC faculty co-teach workshops on implementation science.

Other CollaborationsOther Collaborations

• National Institute of Nutrition in Hyderabad– 60-village study in Andhra Pradesh of infant feeding

practices

• Indian Regional Clinical Epidemiology Network– studied family violence in India as part of the

WorldSAFE multi-country collaborative study

• Christian Medical College, Vellore– founding mentor, Biostatistics Research and Training

Center• Indian Statistical Institute

– academic programs in biostatistics

• International Center for Research on Women– evaluation of urban family programs in Uttar Pradesh

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