{"id":1573,"date":"2015-10-27T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2015-10-27T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:10:04","slug":"public-health-and-refugee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/current-debate\/public-health-and-refugee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday&#8217;s List: Five courses on Public Health and Refugee Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/refugees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1577\" src=\"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/refugees.jpg\" alt=\"ISAF VCR Aids Afghan Refugee Camp\" width=\"408\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/10\/refugees.jpg 640w, http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/10\/refugees-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/10\/refugees-280x200.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/isafmedia\/4802219764\/in\/photolist-8jmCCu-frbkVG-wYpWsb-v2mbPt-pweTiA-ecfYha-mdAkK6-mdB3WH-qrPiFE-mdB4ga-rGW74C-o3jEdV-a48J2H-figCiE-mdCfad-9dihih-9uvT5i-yzZ6PH-yWSHi-9a9nsQ-bdS7BX-hj1iS1-nKQjfy-mdAiCa-oZs62R-fNdBpo-oLCGKP-4Q1WY3-FGnsM-xBX8Qz-yYu57-6CrmJZ-a3ZXuZ-tgYGr-z6VssE-bMpyjc-a3ZWDZ-ykFYFq-nKQAmW-fjRJpw-xj5B1W-uK3SMd-yWSH5-hiZWBM-hj1nyG-mdAyQ4-a5LLXu-mdC28b-o56VxK-o3jEeg\"><em>*picture credit<\/em><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/refugee-crisis-families-could-freeze-to-death-after-leaders-warn-eu-could-fall-apart-if-it-fails-to-a6708776.html\">refugee crisis<\/a> becoming more and more dramatic and coming from a<a href=\"http:\/\/neurope.eu\/article\/iom-7000-migrants-and-refugees-crossing-daily-to-greece\/\"> country that\u00a0currently receives 7,000 refugees<\/a> per day I can&#8217;t help but thinking what more can we do and especially what more public health can do. This is, obviously, not a concern of me alone: we <a href=\"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/from-the-editors\/new-editorial\/\">recently published an editorial<\/a> on the role of public health on the migrant crisis and even<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00038-015-0754-z\/fulltext.html\"> more recently a paper describing a curriculum<\/a> for training public health students to address healthcare of asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>In this paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.nyu.edu\/pophealth\/faculty\/ramina01\u00a0\">Ramin Asgary<\/a> describes this curriculum which had 3 main components: didactic sessions, panel discussions with survivors and advocates and participation in medico-legal process of asylum seeking. About 125 public health graduates took part in this curriculim since 2005 and an assessment showed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improved knowledge regarding sequalae of abuse and survivors&#8217; health care needs<\/li>\n<li>improved attitudes towards working with survivors<\/li>\n<li>improved self-efficacy in identifying at-risk populations and addressing healthcare of survivors<\/li>\n<li>increased desire to pursue global health and human right careers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This very interesting article made me wonder: are there a lot of similar progams of people who might want to have such training? I did a quick google search and following the rigid methodology of a busy blogger (read: going throught the first 3 pages of google results), I have identified the following academic programs (in random order):<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health<\/strong> has a Center for Refugee and Disaster Response that offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhsph.edu\/research\/centers-and-institutes\/center-for-refugee-and-disaster-response\/education_training\/degrees\/\">a number of training opportunities\u00a0<\/a>including a MPH and a certificate in health crisis and humanitarian assistance as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.jhsph.edu\/index.cfm\/go\/viewCourse\/course\/RefugeeHealthCare\/coursePage\/lectureNotes\/\">open source material for a course on Refugee Health Care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Burnet Institute<\/strong> offers a training course entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.burnet.edu.au\/training_courses\/1_public_health_in_refugee_settings\">Public Health in Refugee Settings<\/a>&#8221; , covering a variety of topics including need assessment, mental health issues and trauma management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. The Harvard Programme on Refugee Trauma<\/strong> offers the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/hprt-cambridge.org\/education\/gmh\/\">Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>which combines a 2 week face to face course followed by 5 month online courses. Almost 500 people have completed this course so far!<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. The Columbian University Maliman School of Public Health<\/strong> has\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailman.columbia.edu\/research\/program-forced-migration-and-health\">Program on Forced Migration and Health\u00a0<\/a>which. In this program\u00a0students work towards a Master in Public Health degree with a required Certificate in Public Health and Humanitarian Assistance (PHHA) and a 2-month skills-based practicum in a humanitarian setting. There is a blog associated to this Program that you can access <a href=\"https:\/\/pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong>. The only European-based course I could identify was one offered by the <strong>University of Copenhagen<\/strong>, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdma.ku.dk\/courses\/humanitarian_interventions\/\">Health in Emergencies and Refugee Health&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0This course is part of the Master in Disaster Management and consists of 7 weeks online learning and 2 weeks face-to-face training. Some aspects addressed includes conceptual and legal frameworks, operational aspects of humanitarian interventions and partnerships and roles in different stages of emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Help me expand this list! Do you know of other courses that I might have missed? Or have you taken part in any of the above and would like to share your experience?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">\u00a0*picture credit &nbsp; With the refugee crisis becoming more and more dramatic and coming from a country that\u00a0currently receives 7,000 refugees per day I can&#8217;t help but thinking what more can we do and especially what more public health can do. This is, obviously, not a concern of me alone: we recently published an editorial&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/current-debate\/public-health-and-refugee\/\" title=\"Read Tuesday&#8217;s List: Five courses on Public Health and Refugee Healthcare\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,19],"tags":[197,695,704,737,738],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-debate","category-food-for-thought","category-courses","tag-course","tag-public-health","tag-public-health-course","tag-refugee-crisis","tag-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}