The establishment of public health measures requires trained public health staff. Many developing countries have no choice but to send students abroad for training. In addition, we are in a global community of health, yet our students in developing and developed countries alike have little international experience. We are in the process of establishing a telecommunications based public health training program. This program will grant degrees in public health, as well as provide internationally recognised certificates for those students receiving their public health degrees from their home institutions.
Students can also take courses to gain international experience.
The first step of this is to identify potential faculty in epidemiology and other disciplines from schols of public health who are facile on the internet who would like to teach in this meta-school. The second step is to network, across country boundaries, young people starting their training in public health so as to start a global training dialogue among students themselves and thr faculty. The third step is to begin the degree granting programme. 1 LaPorte RE, Akazawa S, Hellmonds P, Boostrom E, Gamboa C, Gooch T, et al. Global public health and the information superhighway.