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The school has five primary goals

  1. To provide education and training to national health leadership and district health teams in support of the national health plan
  2. To conduct applied research to facilitate the efficiency and impact of health sector interventions
  3. To contribute to the knowledge base on the management of complex emergencies and disasters and to disseminate lessons learned nationally, regionally and internationally
  4. To improve the quality of public health programs in Rwanda through service activities
  5. To develop an autonomous and sustainable School of Public Health

Objectives

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


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