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Goals and Objectives
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The school has five primary goals
- To provide education and training to national health leadership and district health teams in support of the national health plan
- To conduct applied research to facilitate the efficiency and impact of health sector interventions
- To contribute to the knowledge base on the management of complex emergencies and disasters and to disseminate lessons learned nationally, regionally and internationally
- To improve the quality of public health programs in Rwanda through service activities
- To develop an autonomous and sustainable School of Public Health
Objectives
- To provide education and training to national health leadership and district health teams in support of the national health plan:
- To educate at least 24 district health doctors at the masters level during the five year period
- To conduct at least one national training per year of district health teams
- To conduct applied research to facilitate the efficiency and impact of health sector interventions:
- To establish a resource center for public health research in Rwanda
- To implement operations and evaluation research in support of priority health problems and programs
- To contribute to the knowledge base on the management of complex emergencies and disasters and to disseminate lessons learned nationally, regionally and internationally:
- To synthesize lessons learned in managing the social and health effects of the Rwandan conflict experience
- To develop a research agenda that identifies important information gaps related to post conflict health development
- To collaborate in at least one research activity funded by an internationally recognized research agency
- To improve the quality of public health programs in Rwanda through service activities:
- Each faculty member will participate in consultations to the Ministry of Health and/or key donor organizations supporting health sector work in Rwanda
- Demand for faculty services will increase over the five year period
- To develop an autonomous and sustainable School of Public Health:
- To achieve an internationally competitive faculty of at least four full-time and four half-time members
- To establish administrative and management systems required to financial, material and human resources management
- To develop state-of-the-art information technology capacity (physical and human)
- To establish an increasing revenue base in training, research and service over the five year period
- Establish an inter-institutional Masters in Applied Development, in collaboration with Tulane University and ISED
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