University of Illinois at Chicago/The National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA)
Country:
Ukraine
Award Date:
2004
Award Amount:
$100,000.00
Cost Share:
$176,927.00
Other Partners:
This partnership will develop a new School of Public Health at The National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA), which will improve social conditions and health status in Ukraine by training the next generation of public health leaders. The new school will also expand the range of disciplines to which students are exposed, enhance research on public health issues, and serve as an aca-demic stakeholder in health policy development. The partners plan to 1) adapt best practices from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) model, 2) improve teaching capabilities of NaUKMA faculty through ties with counterparts at UIC and through training in new teaching modalities, 3) establish a UIC-NaUKMA Resource Center for Public Health and the Environment, 4) enhance the NaUKMA public health curriculum by incorporating key components from the UIC public health curriculum, 5) offer a UIC distance learning course for NaUKMA students, titled Principles of Environmental Health, and 6) expand the NaUKMA curriculum to include a practicum and internships.