Workspace, library, and bulletin board for the QA Community of Practice
1. In general, to strengthen public health education and training worldwide. 2. In particular, to focus on development, validation, testing and implementation of self-assessment tool for public health education. 3. This Community will be led by the WFPHA Education Committee, which is an integral part of the WFPHA Strategic Plan 2007-2012 and will be established in 2008.
To collectively work on adapting and validating the WHO/WFPHA guidelines and tools for self-assessment in public health education.
The purpose of this sub-community is to explore general principles and experiences with Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Health Professions Education, and propose ways for moving forward in countries with weak or non-existent QA systems. We will present and discuss global definitions and perspectives of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Health Professions Education, as well as case studies that describe national/local adaptations and applications of the global concepts and principles.
THIS COMMUNITY IS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT, AND SHOULD BE FULLY OPERATIONAL BY AUGUST 2010.
This initiative aims to bring together people, ideas and commitments to build a wide consensus on the standards needed to enable medical schools and medical education to enhance their impact on health system performance and people's health. A Delphi survey followed by a physical gathering, named the Global Consensus Conference (GCC), will strive to reach a global consensus on such standards and promote their use at international scale. The GCC, which is tentatively planned for October 2010, will bring together main organizations worldwide to map out a way forward for quality improvement in medical education.
This sub-committee of the Social Accountability in Medical Education steering committee is responsible for synthesizing the feedback from the Delphi process and drafting the consensus statement.
This community aims to facilitate communicationbetween the members of the Steering Committee for the Social Accountability in Medical Education Initiative.
To share our knowledge, experience and personal insights on health worker migration to inform and improve policy, practice and advocacy.
The International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL) is a community of practice dedicated to facilitating the exchange of professional experiences and innovations in the areas of public health logistics management and commodity security, supporting continued learning, promoting the use of local and regional expertise, and expanding members' professional network. By joining, members become part of a global network and serve as a pool of professional resources for countries and programs worldwide.
The purpose of this community is to exchange information, identify challenges, gain from the experience of others, build partnerships, and collectively work toward the institutionalization of reproductive health care for refugees and the internally displaced. The community also houses the IAWG working groups: 1) Advocacy 2) MISP 3) Data, HIS and Research 4) Maternal Newborn Health 5) Family Planning 6) STI/HIV 7) GBV 8) Adolescent RH 9) Logistics 10) Training Partnerships 11) New Technologies; as well as two regional IAWG groups: the Asia-Pacific IAWG and the sub-Saharan Africa IAWG.
The purpose of this sub-community is for IAWG Advocacy Working Group members to communicate and collaborate on the action plan developed at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Nairobi.
The purpose of this sub-community is for sub-Saharan Africa Regional IAWG members to communicate and collaborate to achieve the goals of the action plan developed at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Nairobi.
The purpose of this sub-community is for IAWG Adolescent RH Working Group members to communicate and collaborate on the action plan developed at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Nairobi.
The purpose of this sub-community is for IAWG Asia-Pacific Regional Working Group members to communicate and collaborate on the action plan developed at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Nairobi.