Duration: 2023-2026
Global health is a field dedicated to enhancing health and fostering equity worldwide through study, research, and practice; it focuses on international health challenges, factors influencing health outcomes, and potential remedies. UNIMI is committed to promoting equality and inclusivity worldwide. This is a project that supports the mobility of teachers of UNIMI Depts. of Medicine and UCM Fac. of Health Sciences in both ways, considering that the shortage of qualified health workers in low-income countries makes ‘on-the-job’ health training one of the most pressing issues of care and treatment. Moreover, the project will facilitate the mobility of students that will carry out clinical training activity in the hospitals linked with both the Universities. They will also attend workshops and seminars covering relevant topics. Students and teachers will have the opportunity to follow seminars also in the frame of UNIMI’s vocational master program in Global Health, that focuses on the study of major global health issues from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.
Project Leader
- Department of Biomedical Science for Health, University of Milan
Partners
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM)
- Doctors with Africa CUAMM
Funding
- EU – Erasmus+
Goal
To cultivate the concept of global health: the exchange between faculty from the two institutions is seen as highly fruitful in this regard.
Objectives
- To equip students with new skills and knowledge, for them to learn to collaborate in teams and perceive the values of different cultures.
- To enable teachers to learn new teaching methodologies, develop skills, scientific knowledge of diseases in different regions and social contexts.
Activities
- Teaching activities, and “teach-the-teachers” for specific subjects
- Teachers and students exchanges to compare and discuss on different methodologies and organizational approach
- Clinical training activities
Impact
- The expertise of the two universities in training and research activities and in the various operational experiences on the ground (e.g., hospitals) will foster new collaborations or exchange at scientific, cultural and social level in the context of cooperation, also in the frame of capacity building projects.
- The project can have also more general effects as it offers a more modern vision of the idea of internationalization, also understood as a response to the needs of less developed countries and therefore of cooperation.