31Jul

CHEPSAA's open access courses: 5 years and counting

winter school 2017

Five years have passed since CHEPSAA’s first curriculum development workshop, where we began the development of our first open access course, Introduction to Complex Health Systems (ICHS). Since 2014, ICHS and Introduction to Health Policy and Systems Research (IHPSR), our second open access course, have been run in July each year as part of the Winter School of the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Understanding and Analyzing Health Policy (UAHP), a third open access course in the CHEPSAA stable, has been running for much longer.

This year, we asked a handful of Winter School students from Ghana, Zambia and South Africa to tell us about their jobs and to reflect on their experiences of attending the week-long IHPSR and UAHP courses, as well as the relevance of these courses to their careers.

This is what they had to say.

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New Teaching Tool Kit: Global Health

The Consortium of Universities for Global Health has released a tool kit that is organised around a series of competencies, with teaching strategies and resources such as websites, videos, journal articles and reports listed against each competency. Although focused on global health, it is likely to be useful to HPSR educators too because many of the competencies are similar to those covered in HPSR courses.

Understanding and Analysing Health Policy: DISTANCE MODULE

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