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The Health Sciences Center for Global Health (HSCGH) at The Ohio State University (OSU) is a collaborative program among the OSU Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Optometry, Pharmacy, Public Health, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Veterinary Medicine. The HSCGH is led jointly by the Colleges of Medicine (COM) and Public Health (CPH).
Contents
- Core Activities
- Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Global Health
- Web site
- Leadership
- OSU Health Sciences Colleges
- References
The HSCGH was created to increase student interest in global careers, prepare students for those careers and to promote, develop and coordinate interdisciplinary global health education and research throughout the health sciences colleges and the larger community. The Board of Trustees approved the creation of the HSCGH in July 2007.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty Framework Grant was awarded to OSU in September 2008. The NIH John E. Fogarty International Center grant supports the creation of new, multidisciplinary educational programs as well as an administrative infrastructure to support activities.
Core Activities
Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Global Health
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Global Health (GISGH) is a university-wide program that offers current OSU graduate and professional students advanced educational opportunities in the field of global health. The goal of the GISGH is to help prepare graduates to be active participants in the advancement of global health through academic enrichment, service-learning, and research pertaining to issues of global health. The specialization's core course, Introduction to Global Health, focuses on the basic components of population health, while the electives allow students to pursue topics across the other health sciences colleges for a truly interdisciplinary experience.
Web site
Health Sciences Center for Global Health
Leadership
Daniel D. Sedmak, MD, is the Principal Investigator of OSU's Fogarty Framework Grant and Director of the HSCGH. Dr. Sedmak, Chairman and professor of Pathology, has led the planning and execution of Global Health Initiatives at the OSU Medical Center. Dr. Sedmak has been a longtime medical faculty member and served as interim dean of the college and interim senior vice president. He served as executive vice president and executive dean at Georgetown University Medical Center. His scientific focus is the pathobiology of cytomegalovirus, particularly its escape from immunosurveillance. Prior to entering administration full-time, Dr. Sedmak was an NIH-funded investigator for over 15 years and authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. He has received, among numerous other distinctions, Ohio State COM's most prestigious teaching recognition, Professor of the Year and the Gold Humanism award.
Mary Ellen Wewers, PhD, professor in the CPH, serves as a Co-Investigator on the Fogarty Framework Grant and Co-Director of the HSCGH. Her primary responsibilities as co-director will include overall supervision of curricula development and implementation. She received a doctorate in nursing from the University of Maryland in Baltimore and a master’s of public health from Harvard School of Public Health, where her area of concentration was Health Policy, specifically tobacco policy and control. Dr. Wewers currently serves as Co-Director and Project Leader on a NCI-funded P50 grant that developed the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities at OSU’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her current work investigates tobacco treatment among underserved groups of tobacco users residing in rural Ohio Appalachia.
Pamela Potter serves as the administrative director for the Health Sciences Center for Global Health at The Ohio State University and in that role provides oversight of the daily administration and operation of the center. She is also the assistant director of the Office of Global Health Education in the College of Medicine. Prior to her role at OSU, she served as the Chief of Staff to the Executive Dean for the Georgetown University School of Medicine.