About this session:

This session will begin with an overview of the courses from the Program Director, followed by a discussion with former students and current faculty participants on their feedback. Participants will also be invited to join one of the courses live to observe a course in real time.

These Global Health courses are interdisciplinary and are suitable for staff and students coming from all disciplines. Faculty and students of law, public health, medicine, engineering, philosophy, anthropology, nursing, veterinary, etc. will particularly find this session beneficial.

Goals:

By attending the faculty panel you will:

• Learn about the two distance education courses offered by the APRU Global Health Program

• Assess the benefits of this pedagogical model for students from diverse disciplines and cultures

• Hear perspectives of faculty and students that have participated in the courses 

• Observe student-led breakout room discussions around case studies in global health ethics.

Program:

• Introduction by Dr Mellissa Withers, Program Director, APRU Global Health Program Director (10 minutes) 

• Presentations and sharing by Faculty and F

• ormer Students of Distance Learning Courses (15 minutes)

• Questions from participants (15 minutes)

• Observation of live course of Global Health Ethics in Research and Practice (15 minutes)

About Global Health Online Courses:

Now in their fifth year, the two virtual global health courses have four to five APRU member universities signing on live every week for 10 weeks. These graduate-level courses examine bioethics and global health leadership from multiple disciplines and cultural orientations. They afford students the opportunity to interact with world-renowned guest speakers, participate in small group discussions around real-world case studies, and work in international teams on a group project.