The comment period for opinions on ASPPH’s NEW
Global Health Concentration Competencies for the Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree closed on Monday April 30, 2018.
The ASPPH Global Health Committee is overseeing the process to produce final competency recommendations,

for voluntary consideration by CEPH-accredited schools and programs, by August 2018.

In the interim, questions may be directed to Ms. Liz Weist at  eweist@aspph.org

Master's Global Health Competency Model

The original Global Health Competency model, developed in 2011, was designed to provide a framework for the abilities expected of master’s-level students in global health programs that will prepare them for successful performance in the global public health workforce. While the 2016 Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) core competency requirements for Master of Public Health (MPH) degrees rendered this 2011 competency model obsolete, it is still available,  below, as useful for faculty and students in global health programs across a broad range of institutions beyond graduate schools of public health – schools of international relations/affairs, business schools, law schools and, of course, other health professions’ schools, such as those in medicine and nursing, as well as programs in the biological and social sciences.

Target Audience

Students specializing in global health upon graduation from a master’s-level program of study.

Goal

To promote population health, safety, and well-being at local and global levels by enhancing the global health competence of students in schools of public health and related global health educational programs.

• Capacity Strengthening

  Capacity strengthening is the broad sharing of knowledge, skills, and resources for enhancement of global public health programs, infrastructure, and workforce to address current and future global public health needs.

  • Design sustainable workforce development strategies for resource-limited settings.
  • Identify methods for assuring health program sustainability.
  • Assist host entity in assessing existing capacity.
  • Develop strategies that strengthen community capabilities for overcoming barriers to health and well-being.
• Collaborating and Partnering

  Collaborating and partnering is the ability to select, recruit, and work with a diverse range of global health stakeholders to advance research, policy, and practice goals, and to foster open dialogue and effective communication

  • Develop procedures for managing health partnerships.
  • Promote inclusion of representatives of diverse constituencies in partnerships.
  • Value commitment to building trust in partnerships.
  • Use diplomacy and conflict resolution strategies with partners.
  • Communicate lessons learned to community partners and global constituencies.
  • Exhibit interpersonal communication skills that demonstrate respect for other perspectives and cultures.

   

• Ethical Reasoning and Professional Practice

  Ethical reasoning and professional practice is the ability to identify and respond with integrity to ethical issues in diverse economic, political, and cultural contexts, and promote accountability for the impact of policy decisions upon public health practice at local, national, and international levels.

  • Apply the fundamental principles of international standards for the protection of human subjects in diverse cultural settings.
  • Analyze ethical and professional issues that arise in responding to public health emergencies.
  • Explain the mechanisms used to hold international organizations accountable for public health practice standards.
  • Promote integrity in professional practice
• Health Equity and Social Justice

  Health equity and social justice is the framework for the analysis of strategies to address health disparities across socially, demographically, or geographically defined populations.

  • Apply social justice and human rights principles in public health policies and programs.
  • Implement strategies to engage marginalized and vulnerable populations in making decisions that affect their health and well-being.
  • Critique policies with respect to impact on health equity and social justice.
  • Analyze distribution of resources to meet the health needs of marginalized and vulnerable groups.
• Program Management

  Program management is the ability to design, implement, and evaluate global health programs to maximize contributions to effective policy, enhanced practice, and improved and sustainable health outcomes.

  • Conduct formative research.
  • Apply scientific evidence throughout program planning, implementation, and evaluation.
  • Design program work plans based on logic models.
  • Develop proposals to secure donor and stakeholder support.
  • Plan evidence-based interventions to meet internationally established health targets.
  • Develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess programs.
  • Utilize project management techniques throughout program planning, implementation, and evaluation.
  • Develop context-specific implementation strategies for scaling up best-practice interventions.
• Socio-cultural and Political Awareness

  Socio-cultural and political awareness is the conceptual basis with which to work effectively within diverse cultural settings and across local, regional, national, and international political landscapes.

  • Describe the roles and relationships of the entities influencing global health.
  • Analyze the impact of transnational movements on population health.
  • Analyze context-specific policy making processes that impact health.
  • Design health advocacy strategies.
  • Describe multi-agency policy-making in response to complex health emergencies.
  • Describe the interrelationship of foreign policy and health diplomacy.
• Strategic Analysis

  Strategic analysis is the ability to use systems thinking to analyze a diverse range of complex and interrelated factors shaping health trends to formulate programs at the local, national, and international levels.

  • Conduct a situation analysis across a range of cultural, economic, and health contexts.
  • Identify the relationships among patterns of morbidity, mortality, and disability with demographic and other factors in shaping the circumstances of the population of a specified community, country, or region.
  • Implement a community health needs assessment.
  • Conduct comparative analyses of health systems.
  • Explain economic analyses drawn from socio-economic and health data.
  • Design context-specific health interventions based upon situation analysis.

Full Educational Model and Report

Global Health Competency Model (404 KB)

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