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

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Diversity & Inclusion

Revenue Generation

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Teaching & Learning

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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.

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Global content all

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Interdis. undergrad program

Foster communities

of learning

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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

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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

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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