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Dr. Robyn Phillips-Madson, Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of Texas' University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine highlights the creation of the MPH program through partnership with NextGenU.org, and describes the high quality of this program and its role in the development of global public health.
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A major goal of NextGenU.org has been to provide globally accessible opportunities for education. Because of our collaborations with multiple partner organizations, this dream is becoming a reality.
December 2020 took this goal a major step forward. An official memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing ceremony took place on December 2nd, which cemented the partnership between NextGenU.org, Allama Iqbal Open University and the Network for Human and Social Development, to offer joint certificate courses in the field of Public Health in Pakistan. This partnership holds magnificent value for outreach, enabling NextGenU.org’s courses to be offered to AIOU's 1.4 million students!
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As shown on each course home page, all courses:
- are tested and published on with open-access, peer reviewed research available here and at the bottom of this page.
- are based on expert-created, published competencies.
- are created by a team with content expertise.
- include only advertisement-free learning objects only from universities, governments, professional societies, and peer-reviewed journals.
- include mentor and peer based activities when needed for addressing skills-based competencies.
- are reviewed and approved by a course-specific international expert Advisory Group.
- are reviewed and approved by our internal editors and quality control team.
- offer co-sponsorship from accredited universities and other global leading organizations (e.g., CDC, NATO Science for Peace, WHO).
- can be locally contextualized with peers and mentors.
- can have local control of delivery.
- are constantly tested by our broad learner spectrum, including American doctors and government (CDC) public health workers, medical students, medical residents, and graduate students, Kenyan community health workers and primary care providers, Asian and African preventive medicine providers, and other NextGenU.org registrants in 191 (of 193) countries.
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5. Nadkarni A, Weobong B, Weiss HA, et al. (2017). Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet (London, England). 389(10065):186-195. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)31590-2/fulltext
6. Patel V, Weobong B, Weiss HA, et al. (2017). The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet (London, England). 389(10065):176-185. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)31589-6/fulltext
7. Rossa-Roccor, V, Malatskey, L, Frank, E. (2017). NextGenU.org’s Free, Globally Available Online Training in Lifestyle Medicine. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 11. 132-133. https://doi.org/10.
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9. Clair V, Rossa-Roccor V, Mokaya AG, Mutiso V, Musau A, Tele A, Ndetei D, Frank E. (2019). Peer and Mentored Enhanced Web-Based Training on Substance Use Disorders: A Promising Approach in Low-Resource Settings to Teach Knowledge and Skills and Decrease Stigma. Psychiatric Services. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31551043
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11. World Health Organization. (2020). Call to Action: Addressing the 18 million health worker shortfall. Submission 2 (pgs 5-7). https://www.who.int/hrh/news/2019/Call-to-Action-Campaign-FirstRoundSubmissions.pdf