Global Health Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges, Adaptations, and Lessons Learned.

ABSTRACT: Global health education programs should strive continually to improve the quality of education, increase access, create communities that foster excellence in global health practices, and ensure sustainability. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the University of Minnesota's extensive global health education programs, which includes a decade of hybrid online and in-person programing, to move completely online. We share our experience, a working framework for evaluating global health educational programming, and lessons learned. Over the decades we have moved from a predominantly passive, lecture-based, in-person course to a hybrid online (passive) course with an intensive hands-on 2-week requirement. The pandemic forced us to explore new active online learning models. We retained our on-demand, o

SUBMITTER: Krohn KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8641357 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature