Explore faculty development pathways designed for educators, curriculum designers, and the faculty who teach the next generation of health workers. This page provides access to the TUFH Teaching Fellowship, the Health Workforce for the Public Good curriculum it hands you, and the ISAT instrument for assessing where your institution stands. Take a proven course, adapt it to your region, and teach it yourself.
TUFH Faculty Development Curriculum
The TUFH Teaching Fellowship — Aligning Education with Social Accountability
TUFH is investing in the capacity of regions and countries, through its Centers of Excellence programme, to achieve its vision for local adoption and implementation of social accountability, interprofessional education and collaborative care, and health worker competency standards. The Teaching Fellowship is part of that strategy. The purpose of the Fellowship is to work in partnership with education leaders so that they can adapt the online Health Workforce for the Public Good (HWEPG) course and implement it in their own region. Institutions starting their own courses have full access to the PPTs, lesson plans, readings, and discussion questions used in previous years — free to modify or use intact. We anticipate that participants bring curriculum design and teaching skills to share with others in the programme. The HWEPG course values are maintained throughout: participants learn from and with each other, the focus is on the application of knowledge, and content is locally authentic. Within those values, the programme is adapted by participants to meet local needs. Applicants are asked to include a plan for adapting and implementing the HWEPG programme in their region. Fellows present their preliminary plans during the final live session, after which individual and group mentoring is available to help complete planning and implementation.
| Curator | Synchronous or Asynchornous | Virtual / In-Person | Course Length | Costs | Targeted |
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Synchronous |
Virtual | Six weekly 2-hour sessions |
TUFH members: Free Non-members: 50% of the individual membership fee |
Educators, faculty, and curriculum designers
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Assess Your Institution:
Institutional Self-Assessment Social Accountability Tool (ISAT)
Where does your institution actually stand?
Faculty development does not happen in a vacuum. Before you redesign a curriculum, it helps to know how your institution performs across the domains that make an institution socially accountable — and one of those domains is faculty recruitment and development itself.
The Indicators for Social Accountability Tool (ISAT), now in version 2.0, helps institutions become more socially accountable to the public, to the community, and to the people they serve. It addresses:
- Student recruitment, selection, and support
- Faculty recruitment and development
- What, how, and where students learn
- Research activities
- Governance and community engagement
- School outcomes
- Societal impact
Each core component is divided into four developmental phases, with milestones, standards, and indicators. The process engages all the key players at an institution in reflecting on where the institution currently sits in each domain, and where there is room for improvement on the journey toward social accountability. The ISAT verification process then demonstrates an institution’s dedication to responding to people’s and society’s priority health needs, today and in the future — and brings its representatives into a community of leaders driving a global movement.
ISAT is managed by The Network: TUFH, NOSM University, and the Dr. Gilles Arcand Centre for Health Equity, in collaboration with THEnet and the Social Mission Alliance, and was developed with the support of PAHO and the WHO. It is available in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Partner Faculty Development Courses
Global Health (NextGenU) is a comprehensive online course designed to equip participants for professional practice within the global health field by providing knowledge and skills pertinent to addressing the issues and health implications surrounding global health from various perspectives. The purpose of this course is to educate and inform participants about the major determinants of health and disease from a global perspective and to prepare learners for professional practice in global health.
| Curator | Synchromous or Asynchornous | Virtual / In-Person | Course Length | Costs | Targeted |
 | Asynchornous | Virtual | 190 hours – 6 Modules | Free | Students, Faculty, and Leadership |
Resource Library
If you are interested in suggesting an additional resource for Faculty Development, we welcome your contributions.
Recommending resources is one of the benefits of being a member of TUFH, helping us expand and strengthen our shared knowledge base. To submit a resource or learn more about membership, please contact secretariat@thenetworktufh.org.