New Frontiers in Global Health

"Building Strong Health Systems to Expand the NCD Response"

March 28 - April 1, 2012
University of Arizona
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Tucson, Arizona
Registration:  Begins Sept. 2011

 


The University of Arizona offers bi-cultural, border and indigenous health programs, models and tools. This four-day program will be co-hosted by the Zuckerman College of Public Health and the Tohono O'odham Department of Health and Human Services.

Agenda

The Tohono O'odham Nation will welcome program participants to their native lands along the U.S.-Mexico border at the foot of sacred Baboquivari Peak on the first day.  Each day will feature a key theme in health systems strengthening:

  • Quality assurance & improvement
  • Health workforce development
  • Integration
  • Health information systems

Both local and global case studies and models will be presented, discussed and experienced using interactive and service learning techniques with the aim of finding global solutions to the non-communicable diseases (NCD) pandemic.

Contact:

Karen Heckert, PhD, MPH, MSW
University of Arizona
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
(520) 626-3877 | kheckert@email.arizona.edu