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Networking can be a key strategy in advancing educational quality in Public Health in India. Lancet Commission on Education of Health Professionals also strongly recommends establishing networks and partnerships to bring changes to professional education and enhance health. Networking can prove to be a useful tool for improving knowledge, management, and sharing in public health. Also, it may help with system transformation and the expansion of organizational and professional capabilities (Zodpey & Sharma, 2013).
In India, the Institutional level of networking includes the South East Asia Public Health Education Institutions Network (SEAPHEIN) which has been developed and promoted under the stewardship of the World Health Organization's South-East Asia Regional Office (WHO-SEARO). The Indian Chapter of the same was established in 2020 with the mission to collaborate with Indian member institutes to improve partnerships and sustain the quality of public health education to address the relevant public health challenges (Zodpey & Sharma, 2013).
Kindly share your thoughts on the importance of networking in the public health context and the steps taken by institutes to create a network of public health professionals in India.
Reference:
Sharma, A., & Zodpey, S. P. (2013). Transforming public health education in India through networking and collaborations: opportunities and challenges. Indian journal of public health, 57(3), 155–160. //doi.org/10.4103/0019-557X.119833
Benefit to networking was typically in the form of meeting organisational objectives (for example, protecting the public health in the case of the government and the World Health Organisation), publications and follow-on grants (a benefit especially important for academic players), generating resources for ongoing programmatic work (often important for the non-governmental players), and direct financial reward (especially for private for profit organisations). However, the factors that motivated nodes to activate into a network were quite different for each of the networks involved in the different placements. An important learning from the projects was that the barriers to network development need to be managed closely to ensure network success. The thesis demonstrates that networks need to be carefully facilitated to be an effective tool in public health practise. Therefore, public health practitioners will require networking skills for successful public health leadership and practise. These skills should be valued and imbibed in our public health workforce.
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Posted : March 13, 2023 3:34 pm
Immediate collaborative efforts could be directed towards designing and adaptation of competency-driven frameworks suitable for addressing public health challenges of 21 st century, shifting the current focus of curriculum to a multidisciplinary public health outlook, developing accreditation mechanisms for both the programs and institutions, engaging in creating job opportunities and designing career pathways for public health professionals in the public and private sector.
Posted : April 16, 2023 3:46 pm
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