by iphindia | Feb 25, 2016 | Latest Updates
Three IPH organised sessions have been accepted at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Vancouver. The symposium will be held between 14 – 18 November 2016 in Vancouver, Canada.
The title of the organised session are:
1) Policymaker-researcher collaborations in improving access to medicines: getting the prescription right
2) Engaging with complexity in health policy and systems research: experience from applying three
complex-sensitive approaches
3) Understanding causes of inequitable coverage of social health protection programmes: do knowledge paradigms matter for research and policy?
by iphindia | Feb 11, 2016 | e-Learning workshop 2015 Interview videos, Latest Updates
Joseph Matovu from Makerere University shares his experience at the e-learning workshop, “Get Started, Keep Moving” hosted by Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru & Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium. The workshop acquainted participants with various distance/blended formats.
He is a Training Manager for the CDC-‐ funded MakSPH Fellowship Program based at Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) in Kampala, Uganda. The MakSPH Fellowship Program is a public health leadership and management training program aimed at building the capacity of public health managers to manage public health challenges in Uganda.
by iphindia | Feb 8, 2016 | Education, Latest Updates, post_slider
In collaboration with the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Tumkur District, the Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru hosted a 5 day “Induction Training” programme for newly appointed Primary Health Centre (PHC) Medical Officers for Tumkur district. Tumkur is the first district in the state to orient newly appointed Medical Officers. The 5 day programme was attended by 31 doctors (that included specialists) and was well appreciated by all. The participants felt that it gave them a good introduction to their roles and responsibilities, the district staff felt that this would make the PHC Medical Officer’s perform better.
by iphindia | Feb 4, 2016 | e-Learning workshop 2015 Interview videos, Latest Updates
Babatunde Ayinla
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
I am lead programmer, Information Technology Unit, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. I am certified in systems engineering, programming, web design and hold an MSc in computer science with a PhD in view. As part of my work duties, I conduct web and e-‐platform design for departments in the college including the Department of Preventive Medicine & Primary Care and Ibarapa Programme since 2000.
by iphindia | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog, Education, ePHM-Advance, Latest Updates
Application of the peer learning principles in the field of education has a long history. Lot of research has been done by psychologists, sociologists and educators on this and results have been positive. Peer learning has been seen as an effective methodology for gain deeper understanding of the concepts by formal or informal interaction among the peers. Peer learning promotes active participation among students and gives them a space to re-enforce their own learning. Since, the students share common educational or professional backgrounds, it creates interest in the topic. It also gives students a platform to build their communication, presentation and teaching skills.
We at IPH, used one of the aspects of peer learning principles, for our e-learning course in Public Health Management (ePHM). Based on their performance in the course, we selected the top ten students of 2015 batch. We invited them to take classroom sessions for their peers. The theme of the classroom session was – “One Challenge – One Public Health Management Principle”. The students had to talk about one challenge they faced at their workplace and how they applied one public health management principle to overcome the same. The objective of this exercise was to give an opportunity to the students to share their experiences from the field with the fellow students and at the same time give them a feel of how we record our online classrooms.
The response from the invited students was amazing. The students who were based in Bengaluru visited our office and recorded a session with us. Others who were residing outside Bengaluru had a hangout or Skype session with us and recorded the classroom. The students took sessions on different topics like community participation, systems thinking, leadership and development, breast feeding and health systems dynamics framework. We converted their sessions into online classrooms and uploaded it on our online platform, Moodle for sharing with their peers.
It was very interesting to see how the students, who are busy professionals also, took out time and prepared Powerpoint presentations and recorded sessions with us. Our next step is to understand from students how they benefited from this learning methodology. Since, this is the era of experimentation, we would love to step ahead and explore other peer learning methodologies in our courses for enhanced learning experience!
You can catch a glimpse of the peer classroom sessions
by clicking on the image:
Dr.Aneesha Ahluwalia is Training Officer at Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru and tutor for the ePHM course.
by iphindia | Jan 18, 2016 | e-Learning workshop 2015 Interview videos, Education, Latest Updates
I am a Lecturer at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Uganda. I am involved in training and supervising Master of Public Health Distance Education (MPH-‐DE) students at the College. Supervision of Distance Education students requires skills to enable the student benefit from the interaction with supervisor and for the supervisor to be able to deliver to the students’ expectations. As a Disaster Resilience Research Fellow, I have just completed a Distance /E-‐learning certificate course in Disaster Resilience Leadership (DRL).
The response from the invited students was amazing. The students who were based in Bengaluru visited our office and recorded a session with us. Others who were residing outside Bengaluru had a hangout or Skype session with us and recorded the classroom. The students took sessions on different topics like community participation, systems thinking, leadership and development, breast feeding and health systems dynamics framework. We converted their sessions into online classrooms and uploaded it on our online platform, Moodle for sharing with their peers.
