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Our story

• Initiated by WHO in 1979 as “The Network of

Community oriented medical schools”

• WHO social accountability project: “Towards Unity

for Health” (2000)

• → The Network: Towards Unity for Health

History

• Established in 1979 as The Network of Community-

Oriented Educational Institutions for Health Sciences

• As of 1989, a NGO in official relationship with the World

Health Organization

• Merged in 2001 with WHO‘s Towards Unity for Health

project

• The office of the Secretariat is now located in Philadelphia

in the United States of America

Who we are

The Network: TUFH is

• A global network of individuals, institutions and
• rganizations (network of networks)
• Committed to improving the health of the people and

their communities

Our mission

• Contribute to equitable health systems
• Support development of socially accountable education

institutions

• Build an international community of professionals,

institutions, and students who share these goals

Our goals

In Health Services

• Encourage collaboration by educational institutions

with communities, health services and related sectors to promote development of model health systems that lead to better health.

Our goals

In Education

• Align education curricula for health personnel with

priority health needs of the community

• Develop educational methods that enable students to

learn in the community.

Our goals

In Research

• Identify and alleviate priority health problems of the

community and evaluate effectiveness of health services.

What we do

• Convene educators and health systems stakeholders
• Annual meeting in different WHO region each year
• Keynote speakers, workshops, interactive poster sessions
• “Conference on the move”
• Community site visits

What we do

• Share resources

Membership

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What we do

• “in official relationship” with WHO
• Global Health Workforce Network: Education Hub

What we do

• Collaborate with WFME on accreditation
• Social accountability and accreditation Taskforce

What we do

• Create partnerships between academic health professions

institutions and communities

• “network of networks”

Benefits

• Community of practice
• Members assist each other through consultations and

resource sharing.

• Annual meeting discount
• warm, collegial atmosphere
• different WHO region each year
• opportunities for collaboration, new ideas

Benefits

• Access to grants and competitions
• Projects that Work
• Innovations demonstrated to improve community health; sustained for

three or more years

• Student Projects for Health
• Student initiated project to improve community health
• Stella mini-grants
• Small-scale community project, aiming to improve equitable health

care

• Newsletter and Alerts

Student Network Organization

• SNO is an independent organizing body within The

Network: TUFH for students, run by students.

• International network of students, associations and institutions

to provide international experiences (GEMx-SNO International Exchange) as a complement to the training of future health workers, highlighting the importance of working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

Taskforces

▪ If you intersted in one of the taskforces, you can join and become an active member in that field!

▪ Women and Health ▪ Interprofessional education ▪ Social Accountability and Accreditation ▪ Integrating Medicine and Public Health ▪ Community-Based Care for the Elderly ▪ Scaling Up and Transforming Health Professional Education

Regional representatives

▪ Africa ▪ Latin America ▪ North America ▪ Europe ▪ South East Asia ▪ Western Pacific ▪ Eastern Mediterranean

Each region has a regional representative

Education for Health

• Education for Health (EfH) is the peer-reviewed,

MEDLINE-indexed journal of The Network: TUFH, which is dedicated to the dissemination of work consistent with the organization’s mission and

• bjectives in international health.

Declarations

• Fortaleza Declaration
• Tunis Declaration

Conferences

Annual international scientific and networking meeting held in different WHO regions since 1979

• …
• 2005 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• 2006 Ghent, Belgium
• 2007 Kampala, Uganda
• 2008 Bogotá, Colombia
• 2009 Amman, Jordan
• 2010 Kathmandu, Nepal
• 2011 Graz, Austria
• 2012 Thunder Bay, Canada
• 2013 Ayutthaya, Thailand
• 2014 Fortaleza, Brazil
• 2015 Gauteng (Pretoria), South Africa
• 2016 Shenyang, China
• 2017 Tunis, Tunisia
• 2018 Limerick, Ireland

#TUFH 2018

• March 12 – Deadline for Abstract Submission
• http://tufh2018.com/

CONFERENCES

SOCIAL EVENTS

SITE VISITS AND EXCURSIONS

Contact

• http://thenetworktufh.org/
• secretariat@thenetworktufh.org
• @TheNetworkTUFH
• @TheNetworkTUFH
• newsletter@thenetworktufh.org
• http://thenetworktufh.org/sno/
• sno.network@thenetworktufh.org
• @StudentNetworkOrganization

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