This course pairs faculty-mentored student teams with enterprises on the front lines of health care delivery in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. To tackle specific barriers identified by each partnering organization, the course is built around custom-designed projects in strategy, business model innovation, operations, marketing, and technology. Class sessions include interactive cases, practical exercises, and lively conversations with experts, all designed to support project work before, during, and after the intensive two-week onsite collaboration with entrepreneurs, leaders, staff, and stakeholders in the setting. Course assignments include a portfolio of host deliverable, a foundational toolkit designed to support each project, and a distillation of learning from the field. Acknowledgements Special thanks is given to Imperial Health Sciences, Unjani Clinic and L V Prasad Eye Institute for allowing their organizations to be featured in the sample student projects on this course site.
Type of Material:
Online Course
Recommended Uses:
As an online course in Public Health Administration
Aspects of this course can be used in class for discussion and lecture purposes, for homework in either individual assignments or team assignments.
Technical Requirements:
Firefox 32.0.0.330
Java 8 Update 241
Adobe Reader Plugin for Firefox
Adobe Flash – FP 32 for Firefox
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Study a hands-on learning environment in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as it relates to health care.
The overview includes general information about learning goals and course expectations are listed in the syllabus and include, for example, a team project, work on-site in Africa or India for two weeks, attending class sessions and team meetings or mentor meetings.
Target Student Population:
Upper level undergraduate or graduate;
Some aspects may apply to professional development
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
As this is a laboratory course, this presumes prerequisite knowledge in this area either through other courses or through a specific course that may have been designed to go along with this lab course.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
In these MIT courses, the content is outstanding because there is access to embedded documents, instructor insights, readings, lecture notes and project information.
The entire course can be downloaded.
Also includes syllabus
Concerns:
As this is a laboratory course, there is the likelihood that a course exists to accompany this or prerequisite information is necessary.
Another concern is that this course requires travel and MIT establishes this to work on-site with partners and host organizations. As such, this is not a practical expectation for anyone who chooses to use this material.
On-line instructor facilitation required.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The breadth and depth of the content in terms of readings, instructor insights and lecture notes is excellent.
Rich content is specific to global health.
Concerns:
The focus on this is very narrow, as it is designed to have the students spend the last two weeks of a month working full-time on-site with partners in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
This may be a significant restriction on how much of this course material can be applied in other situations.
Requires instructor facilitation.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
A wide array of resources are available, some can be downloaded others are embedded, and a great deal can be learned from this lab course.
Very easy to follow and easy to access
Concerns:
Since it is an online course from MIT, content may be difficult for some students
Requires instructor facilitation.
Other Issues and Comments:
Course last taught 2013. May need updated information.
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