Knowledge Domains Included in Global Health Course on Polio Eradication
| Global Health Knowledge Domains | Domain Overviewa |
|---|---|
| 1. Global alliances | History of the global polio eradication alliance and its trajectory. Provides strategies for alliance building, focusing on how approaches differ depending on health systems, structures, and political contexts. |
| 2. Policy engagement and influence | Defines policy engagement and its importance in global disease control programs. Explores the importance of process, stakeholders, and contexts in considering policy engagement approaches. |
| 3. Field epidemiology and outbreak response | Explores surveillance as a decision support system for planned as well as outbreak responses. |
| 4. Data for decision making | Explores various data collected through polio eradication activities and how they are interpreted to support program decision making. Considers factors that influence the quality of data. |
| 5. Health communications and behavior change | The role of health communications for behavior change and the key principles in designing communication tools, focusing on how they are adapted and refined across different phases of a program and across contexts. |
| 6. Community engagement | Importance of community engagement in health programs and strategies for engaging communities. Considers its key role in long-term health programming and trust building. |
| 7. Planning and management | Considers key elements of planning and management, including microplanning and monitoring. |
| 8. Health commodities, logistics, and supply | Importance of and best practices in logistics management for public health programs, especially large-scale and multicountry programs. |
| 9. Human resources for health | Considers who polio workers are and the challenges they face in achieving disease control, as well as critical factors to consider in acquiring, training, and deploying appropriate health care workers. |
| 10. Health equity and social justice | Describes social determinants of health and how global disease control programs shape global equity and equality. Considers the impact on hard-to-reach populations. |
↵a Materials for all domains can be found here: https://stripe.jhu.edu/learning-hub/global-health-course/.