key: cord-0717230-36ifs42b
authors: Hoffmann, Axel
title: Joint Efforts Towards Capacity Building in International and Global Health
date: 2022-01-27
journal: Public Health Rev
DOI: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1604688
sha: b3d76ec35cf4bae7c114074dc3fdf6a88d7e6988
doc_id: 717230
cord_uid: 36ifs42b

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the final decision on admission is done by the General Assembly. The offered Master program has to be offered in a modular format, consisting of a core course, advanced modules and a Master thesis. Core course and advanced modules have to be submitted to the General assembly in a standardized format, and will be peerevaluated and accredited for a maximum of 5 years; after this period courses have to be re-submitted and re-accredited. Only courses, which are accredited by tropEd, can be taken by the students. This strictly implemented peer-review process of courses is the only practical measure for guaranteeing the quality of course offers, as no accreditation agency for a worldwide transnational higher education network exists [5] . Although this quality assurance measure means an additional burden for the member institutions, it has proven its validity over the past 25 years.

Currently the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic forces the next challenges to tropEd: mobility of students and teachers was heavily restricted in the past 2 years, and national regulations often did not allow onsite teaching-as most of the universities worldwide also tropEd members have to change the mode of delivery of courses to an online or hybrid format. Online teaching does need different pedagogical approaches [6] , what has to be taken into account into the quality assurance of the offered courses. Furthermore, tropEd will have to support as a network the efforts of decolonizing International and Global Health training [7] , by increasing the number of member institutions from the global South, but also by a bigger share of courses offered from institutions from LMIC.

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The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.