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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has announced Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, clinical associate professor of health policy and management and nutrition as a recipient of the inaugural Innovation + Inspiration Awards for faculty and staff members. The criterion for selection is innovation - the production of ideas, programs, products or methods that have transformed disciplines and accelerated solutions for important public health problems.
Hobbs, who joined the UNC health policy and management faculty in 2002, was recognized for her innovations in teaching. She initiated the establishment of a consortium of schools committed to developing executive doctoral programs and helped extend the model as the world's first distance Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program to use Internet video for real-time classes. Hobbs, who has directed the program since 2006, globalized it by piloting the inclusion of international students and addressing the need for interdisciplinary leadership development within the senior public health workforce. More than a dozen schools now participate in the consortium, including London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Toronto, the French national school of public health and the Norwegian School of Management. Her award cites her "vision, perseverance and success in advancing health leadership education and capacity."
Recent UNC Health Policy & Management Faculty Publications
Dean Harris published a new textbook about global perspectives on ethical issues. The book is entitled Ethics in Health Services and Policy: A Global Approach.
Harris has taught a course on ethical issues since 2000. He decided to write his own book, because there was need for materials which provide a global perspective on ethical issues in health. This global perspective is both comparative (multicultural) and transnational (cross-border). Applying a comparative, or multicultural, approach, the book compares different perspectives on ethical issues in various countries and cultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive health issues, research with human subjects, the right to health care, rationing of limited resources, and health system reform. Applying a transnational, or cross-border, approach, the book analyzes ethical issues that arise from the movement of patients and health professionals across national borders, such as medical tourism and transplant tourism, ethical obligations to provide care for undocumented aliens, and the “brain drain” of health professionals from developing countries.
The book uses methods of activity-based learning, and includes selected readings which provide diverse perspectives of people from different countries and cultures in their own words. Further information about the new book is available at http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470531061.html
George Pink co-authored book, Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, Sixth Edition
http://www.ache.org/pubs/redesign/productcatalog.cfm?pc=WWW1-2164
Bruce Fried published new book called Fundamentals of Human Resources in Healthcare. This HR text is for an undergraduate audience. http://www.ache.org/pubs/redesign/productcatalog.cfm?pc=WWW1-2165
The sixth edition of the textbook Shortell and Kalunzy’s Health Care Management was published. Bryan Weiner is one of the editors and Bruce Fried is one of the chapter’s authors.
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