UNC-India Summit Partnership Models: Health and Medical Models Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH Gillings School of Global Public Health

Who We Are #1 public school of public health in the country #1 public school of public health in the country 70-year history of global health leadership 70-year history of global health leadership Educate more than 1,750 students each year with bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral & certificate programs Educate more than 1,750 students each year with bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral & certificate programs Train more than 20,000 health care workers each year Train more than 20,000 health care workers each year Home to the prestigious Water Institute Home to the prestigious Water 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 India

Collaboration: Public Health Foundation of India

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

Collaboration: 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 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 Cent er 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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