{"id":31298,"date":"2016-12-23T01:12:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T01:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/university-of-rwanda-hosts-global-health-students\/"},"modified":"2016-12-23T01:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T01:11:55","slug":"university-of-rwanda-hosts-global-health-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/university-of-rwanda-hosts-global-health-students\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Rwanda hosts global health students\u2019 competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The University of Rwanda hosted from 17th to 19th December, 2016 The Global Health Students Case competition (GH-SCC) at Nobleza Hotel organized with the support of Health Central and East Africa Network (OHCEA).} <\/p>\n

OHCEA is a network of 16 Public Health and Veterinary Higher Education Institutions from 6 Eastern and Central African countries (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon and Senegal), organized in partnership with University of Minnesota and Tufts University. <\/p>\n

The competition was organized under the theme \u201cA multidisciplinary approach of responding, treating, and controlling disease outbreak: a case of Ebola in Rwanda,\u201d with the intention of training the future one health workforce to be able to respond to global health threats in multidisciplinary manner. <\/p>\n

The competition brought together student members of the One Health Students Club in Rwanda from the various disciplines of the University of Rwanda in order to study how a disease outbreak like Ebola, one among the Pandemic Threats can be contained using a multidisciplinary approach. <\/p>\n

The disciplines include Veterinary Medicine, Wildlife and Aquatic Resources Management, Biotechnology, Botany and Conservation, General Medicine, Environmental and Public Health, Nursing and Midwifery and Nutrition and Dietetics.<\/p>\n

Within three days of preparations, contestants were exposed to a critical and systematic thinking strategies to develop a proposal on how Ebola can be contained if it outbreaks in Rwanda. Points that were proposed to be developed included Prevention, Detection and Response.<\/p>\n

Contestants were subjected to their proposals presentations and to a Q&A Session where judges from Rwanda Agricultural Board, Rwanda Biomedical Center, PREDICT and RESPOND, USAID and University of Rwanda were called to assess the contestants. <\/p>\n

The GH-SCC round one was inaugurated at University of Rwanda, selecting the best team that will represent the institution on the next level of the GH-SCC. From the institutional level, the best team will compete with the other best teams in OHCEA network.<\/p>\n

The University of Rwanda engages One Health activities through its College of Agriculture, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine and College of Medicine and Health Sciences. <\/p>\n

The Network is dedicated to promote One Health, by education, research and community outreach within country members under the support of USAID\/Emerging Pandemic Threats-II (EPT-II) Program. <\/p>\n

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