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Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices
BACKGROUND: Developing public health educational programs that provide workers prepared to adequately respond to health system challenges is an historical dilemma. In India, the focus on public health education has been mounting in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic is a harbinger of the increasing...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8857736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35183208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-022-00714-3 |
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author | Miller, Emily Reddy, Megha Banerjee, Preetika Brahmbhatt, Haley Majumdar, Piyusha Mangal, D. K. Gupta, Shiv Dutt Zodpey, Sanjay Shet, Anita Schleiff, Meike |
author_facet | Miller, Emily Reddy, Megha Banerjee, Preetika Brahmbhatt, Haley Majumdar, Piyusha Mangal, D. K. Gupta, Shiv Dutt Zodpey, Sanjay Shet, Anita Schleiff, Meike |
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description | BACKGROUND: Developing public health educational programs that provide workers prepared to adequately respond to health system challenges is an historical dilemma. In India, the focus on public health education has been mounting in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic is a harbinger of the increasing complexities surrounding public health challenges and the overdue need to progress public health education around the world. This paper aims to explore strengths and challenges of public health educational institutions in India, and elucidate unique opportunities to emerge as a global leader in reform. METHODS: To capture the landscape of public health training in India, we initiated a web-based desk review of available offerings and categorized by key descriptors and program qualities. We then undertook a series of in-depth interviews with representatives from a purposively sample of institutions and performed a qualitative SWOT analysis. RESULTS: We found that public health education exists in many formats in India. Although Master of Public Health (MPH) and similar programs are still the most common type of public health training outside of community medicine programs, other postgraduate pathways exist including diplomas, PhDs, certificates and executive trainings. The strengths of public health education institutions include research capacities, financial accessibility, and innovation, yet there is a need to improve collaborations and harmonize training with well-defined career pathways. Growing attention to the sector, improved technologies and community engagement all hold exciting potential for public health education, while externally held misconceptions can threaten institutional efficacy and potential. CONCLUSIONS: The timely need for and attention to public health education in India present a critical juncture for meaningful reform. India may also be well-situated to contextualize and scale the types of trainings needed to address complex challenges and serve as a model for other countries and the world. |
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spelling | pubmed-88577362022-02-22 Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices Miller, Emily Reddy, Megha Banerjee, Preetika Brahmbhatt, Haley Majumdar, Piyusha Mangal, D. K. Gupta, Shiv Dutt Zodpey, Sanjay Shet, Anita Schleiff, Meike Hum Resour Health Research BACKGROUND: Developing public health educational programs that provide workers prepared to adequately respond to health system challenges is an historical dilemma. In India, the focus on public health education has been mounting in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic is a harbinger of the increasing complexities surrounding public health challenges and the overdue need to progress public health education around the world. This paper aims to explore strengths and challenges of public health educational institutions in India, and elucidate unique opportunities to emerge as a global leader in reform. METHODS: To capture the landscape of public health training in India, we initiated a web-based desk review of available offerings and categorized by key descriptors and program qualities. We then undertook a series of in-depth interviews with representatives from a purposively sample of institutions and performed a qualitative SWOT analysis. RESULTS: We found that public health education exists in many formats in India. Although Master of Public Health (MPH) and similar programs are still the most common type of public health training outside of community medicine programs, other postgraduate pathways exist including diplomas, PhDs, certificates and executive trainings. The strengths of public health education institutions include research capacities, financial accessibility, and innovation, yet there is a need to improve collaborations and harmonize training with well-defined career pathways. Growing attention to the sector, improved technologies and community engagement all hold exciting potential for public health education, while externally held misconceptions can threaten institutional efficacy and potential. CONCLUSIONS: The timely need for and attention to public health education in India present a critical juncture for meaningful reform. India may also be well-situated to contextualize and scale the types of trainings needed to address complex challenges and serve as a model for other countries and the world. BioMed Central 2022-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8857736/ /pubmed/35183208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-022-00714-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Miller, Emily Reddy, Megha Banerjee, Preetika Brahmbhatt, Haley Majumdar, Piyusha Mangal, D. K. Gupta, Shiv Dutt Zodpey, Sanjay Shet, Anita Schleiff, Meike Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices |
title | Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices |
title_full | Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices |
title_fullStr | Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices |
title_full_unstemmed | Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices |
title_short | Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices |
title_sort | strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an swot analysis from india to inform global best practices |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8857736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35183208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-022-00714-3 |
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