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Curriculum Scans
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PHFI commissioned and coordinated a scan of curriculum and competencies in the public health education institutions and networks in PHGN which provided a review of existing programmatic frameworks and curricula for public health education in PHGN. The main aim of these scans was to benchmark existing experiences and practices in public health capacity building, establish the challenges and priorities and locate strategic areas for intervention in public health institutions in the PHGNs. This scan was conducted by two partner institutions each from four PHGN regions— South Asia, South East Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, Latin America and South America, with each region taking charge of a defined set of countries.
We are providing these curriculum scans which would help you to landscape the current status of public health education in the PHGNs and hence set a preliminary stage for further thinking and experiential learning from this platform.
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Curriculum scan of public health courses in India, Pakistan and Nepal
Ms. Maya Annie Elias; Dr. N. Devadasan
Institute of Public Health, Bangalore, India
The curriculum scan findings indicated that all the institutions have a clearly stated mission and specific objective for the courses. In Pakistan, all the six institutions contacted were affiliated to a university. Master’s programmes and Ph.D courses are offered in Nepal.
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Curriculum Scan of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Shahaduz Zaman; Mizanur Rashid Shuvra; Mushtaque Chowdhury
School of Public health, BRAC University, Bangladesh
Public health education in Bangladesh is offered by several national institutions and private universities. Courseware is pertinent to the country’s health problems. The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is responsible for medical education in all disciplines. The course enables a student to develop specialist skills in community medicine.
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Public Health Education in Thailand
Pattapong Kessomboon, PhD; Nusaraporn Kessomboon, PhD
Thailand has public health education programmes ranging from a certificate course to PhD programmes, mostly organized by the public sector. Programmes are jointly developed by Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and the Ministry of Education.
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Public health curriculum scan in Vietnam
Le Vu Anh, PhD;Bui Thi Thu Ha, MD, PhD; Tran Huu Bich, MD, PhD; Le Cu Linh, MD, PhD; Nguyen Thanh Huong,
MD, PhD; Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh, BSc, MPH Ministry of Health, Hanoi School of public Health
There are 19 Universities, 25 colleges and 45 secondary medical schools offering pre-service and post-graduate training to health professionals and 48 different curriculum frameworks for courses at the university, college, secondary and elementary levels decided upon by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Viet Nam.
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A Review of Public Health Education in China
China has diploma, bachelor, Masters Degree programme and Ph.D in preventive medicine related subjects. A Master of Public Health (MPH) was started in 22 universities in 2002 to train public health professionals.
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Curriculum scan for public health education
College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Ghana
Ghana has 57 health training institutions and 17 health training programmes. There is a public health education component in the curricula of all these institutions.
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Public Health Education: Results of an initial search in 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean
Laura Magana Valladares; Gustavo Humberto Nigenda Lopez; Rodolfo Mendez Vargas;
Nidia Guadalupe Sosa Delgado; José Arturo Ruiz Larios
Majority of the educational institutions analyzed in the scan are affiliated with the Latin American Association of the Schools of Public Health (ALAESP). Majority of the institutions focus on the training of human resources in health; 32% of them have a mission specific to public health.
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Public Health Education in Brazil: Context, challenges and opportunities
Álvaro Hideyoshi MATIDA; Antônio Ivo DE CARVALHO; José da Rocha CARVALHEIRO
The curriculum scan for Public Health Education studied 46 Brazilian schools and teaching institutions in public health. Post-graduate programmes in public health in Brazil show ascendant trends in both Master and doctoral degree programmes.
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