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Evaluating the Design, Delivery, and Impact of FHS’s First Global Health Experiential Learning Course
TILT Program: Teaching and Learning Development Grant Program (TLDG)
Principal Investigator: Angela Kaida, professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
Project Team: Malcolm Steinberg, director, Public Health Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences; Mark Brockman, associate professor, Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Health Sciences; Denis Chopera, SANTHE Programme executive manager, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Victoria Kasprowicz, SANTHE senior strategic advisor; Cassandra Parsons, research assistant, Faculty of Health Sciences
Timeframe: May 2020 - January 2023
TILT Support: $5,000
Courses addressed:
- HSCI 891 - Special Topics in Experiential Global Health Learning
- HSCI 488-3 - Directed Studies
- HSCI 891 - Special Topics in Experiential Global Health Learning
- HSCI 496 - Special Topics in Experiential Global Health Learning
Final report: View Angela Kaida's final report (PDF)
Description:
This project examines the design, delivery, and impact of Faculty of Health Sciences’ first global health experiential learning course, developed in partnership between Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the Sub-Saharan African Network for TB and HIV Research Excellence (SANTHE). The course integrates students from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres into a shared learning environment grounded in principles of respect, collaboration, reciprocity, and equity.
This study undertook a mixed-methods approach for data collection, including a literature review, quantitative and qualitative analyses of post-course student evaluations, focus group discussions with course leadership, and interviews with course participants from both SFU and SANTHE.
Findings suggest that the SFU–SANTHE partnership provides a strong foundation for collaborative global health education, with clear evidence that principles of reciprocity and collaboration were effectively implemented, although equity remained more difficult to describe in practice. The course supported meaningful short-term learning outcomes, including professional development, educational scaffolding, and a broadened understanding of research disciplines, while also providing longer-term impacts such as expanded students’ global connectivity and network, improved ability to integrate and understand community-based practices, and increased confidence as researchers or practitioners in their respective fields.
The evaluation also identified key areas for improvement. Recommendations include more equitable selection of student participants, increased opportunities for student self-reflection in-field, implementation of a “buddy system” to support meaningful cross-cultural relationship building, and the development of a community of practice to facilitate post-course networking.
Questions addressed:
- What are best practice principles/approaches to design and deliver global health experiential learning course at the graduate level – focusing on principles of collaboration and reciprocity in learning?
- How was FHS’s first course on global health experiential learning collaboratively designed and delivered?
- To what degree did the course design and delivery meet the key course objectives from the perspective of SFU and SANTHE trainees who participated in the course between 2016-2020?
- What recommendations can we offer to inform the design and delivery of future global health experiential learning courses in FHS and beyond?
Knowledge sharing: Project findings were shared formally with course administrative staff from both SFU and SANTHE and were implemented in the 2022 iteration of this experiential learning course within FHS. Findings were also shared informally with colleagues in FHS through conversations and provision of a preliminary findings deck, with some recommendations integrated into a different international field school course within FHS hosted by Dr. Shira Goldenberg. A manuscript is in preparation for publication, and project findings have been invited for presentation at SANTHE’s 2023 AGM in Zambia.
Keywords: Pedagogy, experiential learning, global health, HIV/AIDS, institutional collaboration, international partnerships