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I'm Giselle Manalo, I'm Sub-dean
International, Sydney Medical School, School of Public Health.
I teach in the Masters of International Public Health program
and my research and field work mainly revolve around community-based
educational programs on primary health care.
The only way to make these programs effective is to understand the
communities and the people that we serve.
So I've been looking at taking the classroom to the field.
Partners that I've established um linkages with in the Philippines
are a local NGO called Zuellig Family Foundation,
an aid agency, United Nations Population Fund,
the University of Philippines, Manila, and the Department of Health.
It's going to be an eight-week experience of
just observing and learning, maybe participating, in training programs.
I think this um will give them the skills,
and also the learning that they won't get in the
classroom. Last year we started what we call
'beyond borders', an initiative between the Graduate Diploma of Indigenous Health
Promotion, my colleagues,
and the MIPH group, have actually engaged their students, who are all Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander students,
and our international and local students. Um. In
tutorial or shared learning activities. And it has been ah very successful.
So we're hoping to increase this engagement and
improve ah, cross-cultural learning among our students.