Graduate Students Work to Create Innovative Teaching Material

How can we push the envelope of global health education and encourage teachers and students to connect material in new ways? Faculty Director Sue J. Goldie challenged graduate students from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health working at the Incubator during the spring 2016 semester to think outside the box in developing innovative teaching tools. “We must create the demand for inventive, interdisciplinary global health teaching material,” Goldie told the students. To illustrate the power of interdisciplinary thinking, Goldie played a video of Cambridge School of Weston teacher Agnes Voligny describing to high school students the importance of math in learning about infectious disease. MPH candidate Dr. Kelechi Weze reflected on the linear nature of his own pre-college education, and how learning to combine and synthesize information across disciplines has enriched his education at the Chan School.