Enhancing an international perspective in public health teaching through formalized university partnerships

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dc.contributor.authorBrzoska, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorAkgun, Seval
dc.contributor.authorAntia, Bassey E.
dc.contributor.authorThankappan, K. R.
dc.contributor.authorNayar, Kesavan Rajasekharan
dc.contributor.authorRazum, Oliver
dc.date.accessioned01/06/2017 10:55
dc.date.available01/06/2017 10:55
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractTeaching in the field of public health needs to employ a global perspective to account for the fact that public health problems and solutions have global determinants and implications as well. International university partnerships can promote such a perspective through the strengthening of cooperation, exchange, and communication between academic institutions across national boundaries. As an example for such an academic network in the field of public health, we introduce the International Public Health Partnership - a collaboration between a university in Germany and universities in India, Turkey, and Nigeria. Formed in 2005, it facilitated the exchange of information, fostered discussion about the transferability of public health concepts, contributed to the structural development of the universities involved, and promoted an intercultural dialog through a combination of local and distance learning activities. Although well accepted by students and staff, different obstacles were encountered; these included limited external funding, scarce own financial, time and personnel resources, and diverging regulations and structures of degree programs at the partnership sites. In the present article, we share several lessons that we learned during our joint collaboration and provide recommendations for other universities that are involved in partnerships with institutions of higher education or are interested to initiate such collaborations.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBrzoska, P. et al. (2017). Enhancing an international perspective in public health teaching through formalized university partnerships. Frontiers in Public Health, 5: 36.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2296-2565
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2901
dc.identifier.urihtto://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00036
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_US
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dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectInternational Public Healthen_US
dc.subjectUniversity partnershipen_US
dc.subjectDeveloping countriesen_US
dc.subjectVirtual classroomen_US
dc.subjectCollaborationen_US
dc.titleEnhancing an international perspective in public health teaching through formalized university partnershipsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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