TUFH Academies for Faculty

Equity: Learning opportunities are available and accessible to all regardless of location, their level of education, their role in  health, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, or age.

Collaboration: The creation of a culture for health requires a shift from linear pathways of education to an interlinked ecosystem of stakeholders actively supporting the shift towards the new norm of lifelong learning for the mutual benefit of achieving health goals.

Participation: Faculty and students should actively participate and promote lifelong learning. All participants have a voice to prioritize needs, preferred methods and channels and are enabled to engage in sharing their ideas with each other.

Excellence: Excellence is pursued proactively so that approaches, materials, resources, experts, processes, assessments, evaluations, certifications, accreditation are of the highest quality.

Faculty developing tomorrow’s health workforce are invited to strengthen their skills in leadership, collaboration, and innovation to promote health and wellness in a program called Health Workforce Education for the Public Good (HWEPG).

HWEPG offers a structured format for imagining, designing, implementing, and evaluating a locally authentic project innovation that applies the concepts of HWEPG.  In the first course, Social Accountability, we encourage you and your team first to think about problems, needs, or opportunities in your environment, grounding those initial thoughts in empiric data about your community, and in existing research on relevant issues.  In Appreciative Inquiry and Resilience, you will use the 4D model of appreciative inquiry to imagine an innovation to address this problem and its pathway to implementation.  The following course, Interprofessional Education, asks you to consider the stakeholders, including the community, who will have input into your thinking about the pressing local problems or opportunities.  Finally, in Transformative Leadership, your team will develop an “outcomes chain,” also called a “theory of change,” for your project which will lead to a process for evaluation.

Starting in January, each course meets online weekly for 8 weeks with a 2 week break between courses.  The last course ends in August.  To supplement the 2 hour live online sessions, we use an online platform for discussions and readings.  Live sessions are highly interactive, consistent with our belief that much of the learning will come from hearing about experiences of faculty from other parts of the world.

Program costs are covered by institutional membership fees.  Faculty from member institutions just need to sign up!

Student courses are targeted for undergraduate and graduate students who want to learn with an international student body about subjects are related to social determinants of health, communication, and the built and natural environment as it impacts on health: iSTEP