GHI-Thailand 2016
Global Health Institute-Thailand-2016 (GHIT) offers One Health leadership training and specialized short courses on key skills like risk analysis and participatory epidemiology. The two weeks GHIT-2016 also will include a research conference for sharing of the latest scientific knowledge on timely topics like emerging diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and food safety.
NEW for 2016: GHIT-2016 will provide an opportunity for enthusiastic researchers to develop a short collaborative research proposal and compete to win seed funding that will be awarded during the research conference at the end of the first week.
BACKGROUND
Global Health Institute-Thailand (GHIT) is an annual activity involving intensive training and comprehensive short courses to encourage application of OneHealth essential skills and competencies. A researcher conference is held during the GHIT to complement the training and enhance networking and collaboration. Among OneHealth advocates at Chiang Mai University, the GHIT offers a wonderful opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration for addressing grand challenges at the interfaces of human health, animal health and the environment. The Global Health Institute was started at Chiang Mai University 2012. and GHIT-2016 is the fourth offering of this program. The program is designed to foster collective action for the benefit of public health, food security and ecosystem health.
OBJECTIVES
To exchange up-to-date scientific knowledge and share One Health experiences and success story in public health including food safety, food and water-borne disease, emerging infectious diseases and other vector-borne or zoonotic disease
To nurture integrative research and diffusion of learning in human, animal and environmental interaction through a collaborative network among international researchers
To deepen understanding of ‘grand challenges’: complex, multi-factorial, systemic issues emerging at the convergence of public health, animal health, economic development and environmental health
To develop key leadership skills for catalyzing collective action including: communications, working across boundaries, influence, vision and strategic thinking, accomplishing results and catalyzing change
To intensify opportunities to use these technical skills and leadership competencies to address complex challenges and opportunities, such as global food security, emerging infectious diseases, or the control of catastrophic animal disease