Office of World Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
The Office of World Health Promotion and Disease Prevention is an innovative trans-disciplinary enterprise that develops collaborations and implements culturally responsive health promotion and disease prevention interventions across the life continuum for the purpose of improving physical and mental health outcomes across the globe. The Office was established in early 2007 to provide an infrastructure to the global health activities of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Carol Baldwin, associate professor and Southwest Borderlands Scholar is director.
This meritorious world-class office is becoming recognized for its distinctive, pioneering trans-disciplinary research and evidence-based:
- Culturally and regionally responsive health promotion/disease prevention interventions
- Education programs for healthcare responders to natural and human-made disasters around the world
- Global healthcare policy
Mission
- Increase cultural learning for faculty and students to nurture culturally responsive service provision;
- Develop and support the expansion of collaborations, courses, and programs the foster global health care delivery, nursing, clinical practice, research experiences, health promotion and disease prevention in developed and developing countries;
- Advance promotion/prevention research and augment the dissemination of evidence-based practice with the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation and Pan American Health Organization technical agreement;
- Facilitate the graduate certificate option in International Health for Healthcare Professionals in the U.S. to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population;
- Prepare nurses and health care professionals to respond to natural and human-made disasters in developed and developing countries;
- Build a World Occupational Safety Nurse Program to reduce fatigue and burnout among nurses thereby ensuring patient safety and enhancing care delivery;
- Enrich the activities of the Center for Improving Health Outcomes in Children, Teens & Families, the Center for Healthy Outcomes in Aging, and the Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence; Center for Healthcare Innovation & Clinical Trials, and the Office of Research and Scholarship;
- Facilitate on-going collaborations with existing ASU global partners, including the Office of Global Engagement and the North American Center for Transborder Studies; and
- Shape world health promotion/prevention policy through application of sound evidence.
