Research Subcommittee Report:
General Purpose: Perform research on public health and global health issues.
Chair: Rahul Parsa
The Research Committee has identified the following research tracks:
1. Medical Education Research – relationship between nutrition, culture, and community. The underlying principle being that we can’t look at nutrition in isolation but in unison with culture and society. In this context, ISU’s program in Uganda will provide an ideal research site (see: www.srl.ag.iastate.edu). It is predominantly community engagement in nature (for community based nutritional and health workers, supported by its partner NGO staff and DMU medical students). ISU is already moving forward building on two research projects conducted in 2007.
Iowa has sister city relationships with several countries. Could we select one of those relationships for a project with research embedded? Or could we take an existing relationship of one of the consortiums institutions, to do a project with research?
2. Impact of the Educational Programs of the consortium – Identify Benefits? Opportunities? What worked well, what didn’t work so well? Collectively, what is the impact for Iowa? What are the future consortium implications?
3. Promoting undergraduate or student research (see http://www.drake.edu/dusci/) – should be an important scholarly activity of faculty in public health. ISU’s Uganda program provides such an opportunity. It is conceivable that with this project one could integrate a study abroad component. As a result, students will benefit in three different ways – study abroad, research, and cultural experience.
The committee does not consider the options to be mutually exclusive.
Funding: Option 1 is the traditional research and thus easier to secure funding. The third option is unique in that it has three components. Added to that we are consortium, might give us an opportunity for funding.
Questions:
1. Focus? One country/program or several countries/regions.
2. What should be our research emphasis? In particular, which track?
3. ???
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Excellent well thought out ideas!
I would recommend identifying 2 sites where we do inter-institutional interdisciplinary education, service and research. At these sites we would have 1-2 research areas that are appropriate to the needs identified by the site that we commit to for a 3 year period.We can have both undergraduate and graduate students participating with the graduate students mentoring the undergraduat in research. I would certainly have Uganda be one site, the other be an already existing sites in South or Central America.
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