SPH2020
UNC Gillings School of
Global Public Health
Iterative Planning Process
At UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, we anticipate the future so we can accelerate positive changes in the public’s health.
We are committed that, in 2020, our departments will continue to be known for excellence in research, teaching, service and practice; the School will be a center for public health innovation; and together we will solve big public health challenges across North Carolina and around the world.
We do not just let the future happen. We create it. That is what SPH2020is about.
SPH2020 is our guide, where we imagine and express our future and follow through on action plans to achieve our goals. ‘We’ includes faculty, staff, students, alumni, members of our leadership boards and others who care about our school. We are the many who guided creation of SPH2020 and who transform these dreams to reality. SPH2020 is a living process, and we are committed to sharing our progress.
We welcome your participation in this journey!
Barbara K. Rimer, DrPHDean and Alumni Distinguished Professor
What is SPH2020?Mission
Values
Priorities
Diversity & Inclusion
Revenue Generation
Global School
Teaching & Learning
Accountability
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…solving big public health challenges across North Carolina and around the world…
SPH2020SPH2020: Our planning process
In 2010, faculty, staff, students and friends shared their knowledge, ideas, and aspirations on what our School should be like in 2020. We cast a wide net, seeking participation through online and in-person meetings, focus groups, and surveys. We prescribed no categories, allowing all to imagine our future without constraint.
From this process, we created a map of what our community wanted the School to be in 2020. That map was to be a vision of what we must be in order to do what we must do.
We took the results to our internal and external leadership groups and asked them to prioritize map categories. This process led us to our vision.
Teaching
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Global content all
courses
Interdis. undergrad program
Foster communities
of learning
Global
Global faculty, students and
staff
Elite global partnerships
Global solutions
leadership
Culture of the School
Infrastructure & Shared
ResourcesReputation
Service & Practice
Teaching & Learning
Translational & Applied Research
Diverse & Inclusive
Global
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In 2020, we’ll be even better!
A hub for public health
innovation
Solving big public health challenges in North Carolina and around the
world
Diverse, inclusive, civil
Among best places in the world to discover, work, learn about &
advance public health
Our vision…
Achieving this vision requires. . . Clear goals and priorities; New resources; Smart resource allocation; Committed School leadership; Engaged faculty, staff and students.
SPH2020SPH2020: Moving forward
With the recession in full swing, and with constrained resources, we had to choose priorities with care and with respect for time and effort. We agreed on a 10-year time-frame. Our SPH is decentralized; and our approach reflected that.
A thoughtful, iterative process ensued. In 2011, we appointed four task forces, diverse in rank, roles, ethnicity, disciplines, departments and more, to map the way forward.
Each task force prioritized goals and estimated resources.
Working groups gathered information for implementation.
Our Dean’s Council reviewed and prioritized recommendations.
Our Chairs’ Committee discussed feasibility and how to implement.
By Fall 2011, we were on our way!
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We improve public health, promote individual well-being, and eliminate health disparities across North Carolina and the world.
We bring about sustainable, positive changes in health by: Educating the next generation of public health leaders; Discovering, testing and disseminating solutions to health threats and
problems; Translating research into effective practices and sound policies; and Serving North Carolina and beyond through outreach, engagement, education
of citizens and health professionals, and application of solutions to health threats and problems.
We are committed to remain the leading public school of public health in the United States.
SPH2020 ...Informed by our mission... SPH2020
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We create the future.
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We are committed to . . . Faculty, staff and student diversity; High standards of excellence and professional ethics; and Personal integrity in all we do.
We believe that . . . Students are the foundation for the school; Public health is accountable to communities; All people should be treated with dignity and
respect.
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. . . and by our values
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1. Diversity and Inclusion TaskforceAchieve greater diversity; be welcoming, inclusive and respectful.
2. Revenue Generation TaskforceStrategically develop capacity to attract and generate revenue from alternative sources.
3. Global School TaskforceIntegrate, organize, further develop and promote the School’s global activities and impact.
4. 21st Century Teaching and Learning TaskforceEmbrace and support twenty-first century teaching and learning strategies.
SPH2020SPH2020: Our priorities
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Achieve greater diversity; be welcoming, inclusive and respectful.
Increase diversity
2. Create and disseminate a strong diversity commitment statement endorsed by School leadership.
3. Create a model and process for promoting adoption of diversity and inclusion principles and practices.
4. Appoint a diversity champion to oversee and support School efforts.5. Increase support for students, faculty and staff through stronger links across
the School, campus, and surrounding community.6. Further engage diverse alumni.7. Identify and support an ombuds dedicated to diversity and inclusion.8. Increase course content that addresses diversity and health.
Enhance organizational culture of diversity & inclusion
1. Increase recruitment and retention of diverse students, faculty and staff by adopting best practices and closely monitoring outcomes.
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Diversity and Inclusion StatementWE, THE SCHOOL’S LEADERSHIP, ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING that the School is a diverse, inclusive, civil and welcoming community. Diversity and inclusion are central to our mission — to improve public health, promote individual well-being, and eliminate health disparities across North Carolina and around the world. Diversity and inclusion are assets that contribute to our strength, excellence and individual and institutional success. We welcome, value and learn from individual differences and perspectives. These include but are not limited to: cultural and racial/ethnic background, country of origin, gender, age, socioeconomic status, physical and learning abilities, physical appearance, religion, political perspective, sexual identity, and veteran status. Diversity, inclusiveness and civility are core values we hold as well as characteristics of the School that we intend to strengthen.We are committed to expanding diversity and inclusiveness across the School — among faculty, staff, students, on advisory groups, and in our curricula, leadership, policies and practices. We measure diversity and inclusion not only in numbers, but also by the extent to which students, alumni, faculty and staff members perceive the School’s environment as welcoming, valuing all individuals and supporting their development.
Diversity
recruitment
specialist hired:
Ms. Trinnette
Cooper
Diversity
champion
appointed:
Dr. Rumay
Alexander
Awards process
updated
Increases in faculty,
student, staff diversity
documented
Summer programs updated
2010-2011
Spring2012
Fall2012
Spring2013
Admissions practices reviewed across departments; new promising practices adopted
GPS launched:
Enhances transparency of diversity across programs
EEO StatementAt the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, diversity, inclusiveness and civility are core values as well as characteristics of the School. We strongly encourage applications from diverse individuals, including but not limited to diversity in such characteristics as race/ethnicity, color, national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic background, religion, creed, veteran’s status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and disability. The University of North Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
More increases in diversity documented
New Jessie Ball DuPont
Fund grant to expand
pipeline programs
Ambassadors’ Program recruitment training
Diversity and Inclusion
Taskforce reboot
Fall 2013
Spring2014
On the Horizon
Academic focus on health equity and health disparities to be strengthened
Full roll-out of Ambassadors Program
Strategically develop our capacity to attract and generate revenue from alternative sources.
Leverage intellectual property to generate revenue.
1. Develop and offer intellectual property training.2. Support translation of intellectual property.3. Support strategic partnerships that help us advance public health
innovations.
Generate better ways to deliver health education services on a global basis.
Develop faculty group practice.
6. Lower administrative barriers to consulting, coalesce faculty around key interest areas and increase visibility.
4. Develop a global, online MPH tailored to specific markets.5. Develop and market online courses, modules and webinars.
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Develop and sustain high-impact global, school-wide strategic partnerships.
1. Hire a globally networked executive director for the Gillings Global Gateway.
2. Provide high priority, high pay-off tools and services to faculty, staff and students.
3. Develop clearinghouse on global work underway at the School and University.
Dramatically increase visibility of our global strengths and impact.
4. Create an interactive online portal that communicates the School’s global strengths, activities, partnerships and impact.
5. Create, maintain and facilitate online network of local and global ambassadors to connect the School with the global community.
6. Create a single point of access for all global-facing learning programs.
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Integrate, organize, further develop and promote the School’s global activities and impact.
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SPH2020Global SchoolHarness the School’s research-to-implementation strengths to maximize impact.
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Harness the School’s research-to-implementation strengths to maximize impact.
7. Create opportunities for research and practice experts to develop and test interdisciplinary solutions to difficult global health problems.
8. Foster solutions that integrate knowledge generation, translation, implementation, evaluation, dollar generation, scale-up and impact.
Expand the School’s global teaching and learning opportunities.
9. Increase the number of international students enrolled in School programs (also in Teaching and Learning).
10. Increase the number of international faculty and researchers in our ranks (also in Teaching and Learning).
11. Expand students’ opportunities to work and learn abroad. 12. Be poised to develop and promote MOOCs as funding opportunities
arise.13. Continue globalizing the curriculum.
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Research to ImplementationGlobal Learning
PartnershipsOutreach and Communication
SPH202SPH2020SPH2020 4. Teaching and LearningEmbrace and support twenty-first century teaching and learning strategies.
Enhance our teaching technologies and their applications.1. Continuously invest in up-to-date teaching technologies, together with the infrastructure
needed to support technology adoption and maintenance.2. Create opportunities and incentives to learn about and adopt new teaching technologies.
Redesign our teaching spaces to support twenty-first century teaching methods.
3. Design large, highly networked and technologically sophisticated classrooms that (a) maximize faculty/student interaction and collaboration and (b) reach local and global students and experts.
4. Invest in collaboration spaces of varying sizes throughout the School, considering technology needs and uses.
5. Design communal spaces with our teaching mission in mind, considering ways to make them safe, inviting and conducive for meetings, collaboration and creative work.
Identify, encourage and reward high quality teaching and mentoring.
6. Give greater weight to high quality teaching in annual reviews and promotion considerations.
7. Develop shared metrics to evaluate teaching quality across the School.8. Publicly recognize teaching excellence.9. Create engaging opportunities for instructors to improve their teaching.
Expand and strengthen global partnerships to enrich students’ education.
10. Pursue opportunities to develop joint graduate program(s) with international partner(s).11. Expand students’ opportunities to work and learn abroad. 12. Increase the number of international students enrolled in School programs.13. Increase the number of international faculty and researchers working at our School.
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At the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, we believe we can make a world of difference, and we live that every day.
SPH2020Accountable for results
Mission
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Created
SPH2020
future
picture
Launched
ad-hoc Task
Forces
Diversity &
Inclusion
Teaching &
Learning
Revenue
Gen.
Reports completed, Spring 2011
Revenue Generation
Teaching and Learning
Diversity and Inclusion (DITF)
Dean’s Council, Chairs’ Cte, PH
Fdn. Board and Adv. Council
ranked/recommendations (9/11)
Diversity commitment statement
(12/11)
EEO statement (1/12)
Classroom upgrades (ongoing)
Admissions Practices Comm. (2/12)
Teaching & Learning seminars (2/12)
Teaching awards (2/12)
Entrepreneurship seminars (10/12)
Refined budgets/plans for highest
priorities
Identified SPH committees for
implementation
Diversity
Continued role for Dr. Alexander,
Diversity Champion
Admissions Practices Committee
continued
Revenue Generation
Faculty group practice
development
IP training program in development
Global School Task Force
Report (9/12) envisioned Gillings
Global Gateway
Diversity and Inclusion
Updated summer programs
IMHOTEP
Summer PH Scholars
Hired diversity recruitment specialist
(Trinnette Cooper)
Achieved modest increases in faculty, student
and staff diversity
Admissions Practices
Documented practices across departments
Updated School awards processes
Identified promising admissions
SPH departments adopted new promising
admissions practices
Revenue Generation
Initiated implementation science partnership
with RTI International
Helped incubate student social entrepreneurship
(ongoing)
Sep
2010
Sep
2012
Oct
2012
Accountable for results
Global School
Created vision/roadmap for globalizing School
(Gillings Global Gateway) (9/12)
Charged Global School Implementation Committee
Focus groups with SPH faculty and students:
“What will it take to globalize the School?”
Priorities for implementing Global School Task
Force vision:
Partnerships
Teaching and Learning
Communication/Networks
Research-to-Implementation
Teaching and Learning
Celebrate Teaching! month continued (2/13)
Teaching and Learning seminars
Teaching awards (2/13)
Epidemiology MOOC
Classroom renovations
New media/AV in 171 Rosenau
New conferencing screens in atrium
Collaboration spaces added
Diversity and Inclusion
Continued increases in faculty, student &
staff diversity
Increased transparency of demographic
data
Recruitment training for faculty, staff and
students (Ambassadors Program)
2nd Summer Public Health Symposium for
high school students
Admissions Practices
Launched Gillings Program Search (GPS)
(documents admissions criteria for each
program)
Increased awareness of scholarships
Revenue Generation
Submitted major grant applications
Global School
Created Gillings Global Gateway (GGG)
Searched for GGG director
Sponsored Global Healthy Aging Summit &
Collaborative with MIT, Cambridge University
in England & Carol Woods Retirement
Community
Began planning global online MPH (ongoing)
Teaching and Learning
Created new and updated classrooms and
collaboration spaces
New classroom 2308 McGavran-
Greenberg
Chaney Collaboration Commons
New Implementation Science course: Gillings
Global Implementation Laboratory
May
2013
June
2013
May
2014