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Our operational priorities include:
›› Research: Building ongoing projects
and collaborations, and developing new
projects around the proposed thematic
priorities.
›› Teaching for medical students: Public
health and health economics
›› Global health teaching: Heidelberg can
build on the postgraduate teaching in
the MSc International Health, the Master
in Medical Anthropology in South Asia,
various short courses, and diploma
courses for those planning to work in
low- and middle-income countries. In
2010 an elective course in global health
was established for medical students and
short courses have been opened to medi-
cal students. A student society for global
health has also been established.
›› Consulting and participation in internatio-
nal expert groups: Synthesising evidence
and providing advice to policy makers
and development agencies nationally
and internationally working in the field of
global health.
›› Fostering equitable partnerships: Deve-
loping models of best practice for fair
partnerships and capacity building in
low-income countries (e.g. cooperation
with the Nouna Research Centre, as well
as networking internationally (European
Academic Global Health Alliance) on best
practice and guidelines, such as the 11
principles for trans-boundary research
partnerships, as developed by the Swiss
Commission for Research Partnerships
(update 2012).
Our thematic priorities include:
›› Developing models, tools and strategies
for the prevention and control of disea-
ses, which disproportionally affect disad-
vantaged populations (product develop-
ment – clinical interventions – modelling
techniques - implementation research).
›› Health and the natural and social environ-
ment (climate change, migration). In this
area, we closely collaborate with another
new interdisciplinary platform, the Heidel-
berg Center for the Environment (HCE).
›› Increasing equity, including gender,
coverage and cost-effectiveness of health
systems.
›› Health policy, governance and health
diplomacy (analysis of current policies
on global health, such as the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), human rights
and health, funding for global health).