Longitudinal Survey on the Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

IPR Global is pleased to announce the publication of its COVID-19 study protocol entitled “A longitudinal survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on interprofessional education and collaborative practice” in the Journal of Interprofessional Care.  The article can be accessed at the journal website: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13561820.2020.1798901

As many countries are experiencing re-opening, the impact of the pandemic on healthcare has been unprecedented. It is widely accepted that healthcare education and practice, including interprofessional education and collaborative practice, has been and will continue to be affected in profound ways. However, the severity and extent of the impact is yet to be determined and is likely to vary internationally. This study is a first in its kind to systematically and globally capture the impact of COVID-19 on interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) which will allow to identify priorities for IPECP research and development in the years to come, as well as to inform future pandemic preparedness. The data collection is conducted on a quarterly basis for a period of 12 months to capture the rapidly evolving nature of the pandemic and its impact on IPECP. 

IPR Global invites faculty/educators, students, administration, providers, and policy makers to join us in taking this anonymous longitudinal COVID-19 IPECP impact survey at:

https://proxy.qualtrics.com/proxy/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.interprofessional.global%2Fcovid19-survey%2F&token=IZDEV8UobAvnHTGX33zW8JazVwBfp32vZGEwX2m0AFw%3D

For more information contact Dr. Hossein Khalili at: hkhalili@wisc.edu

Job Announcement - Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative Chair of Population Health

The Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative, in partnership with the University of Nebraska at Kearney, is proud to announce its Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative Chair of Population Health.

The Collaborative is a new organization whose mission is to facilitate cross-sector collaborations of diverse stakeholders optimizing health care delivery through teams that study and propose solutions to improve population health. This position is an endowed position and the individual will work with cross-sector partnerships on exciting population health research. The newly formed Cyber Systems Department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) is seeking applications from highly qualified candidates for a newly created position entitled the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative Chair of Population Health. The Chair will fulfill an integrative role within the University of Nebraska providing leadership, strategic planning, and advocacy in an effort to advance population health research, interprofessional education, and collaborative practice. 

The position represents a unique partnership with the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative, a division of Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII), and the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK). The Chair will work directly with the Chief Academic Program Officer of NEHII to establish an annual research agenda for population health, will oversee a budget and have access to a unique, comprehensive dataset designed to support this research agenda, and will serve on the Board of the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative. It is envisioned that the Chair’s population health research agenda will draw from new approaches in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data visualization aimed at analyzing large scale social, economic, and progressive healthcare data and resulting in translational research and practical solutions to a wide variety of issues related to population health. In general, data science advocacy across many domains is an important part of the position, as the Chair’s leadership will play a critical role in the growth of data science at UNK. 

The Chair will be part of the Cyber Systems Department and will support the data science curriculum for UNK’s College of Business and Technology (CBT). Currently CBT has programs accredited by AACSB, ATMAE, and CIDA, with significant progress toward ABET accreditation as well. 

Apply through this link: https://unk.peopleadmin.com/postings/3439

Applicants can email jdoll@nehii.org for more information.

Learn more about the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative here: https://nehii.org/about/nebraska-healthcare-collaborative/

Book Chapter - The Resurgence of the Global Research Interprofessional Network

IPR.Global published a chapter, entitled The Resurgence of the Global Research Interprofessional Network in the book Sustainability and Interprofessional Collaboration: Ensuring Leadership Resilience in Collaborative Health Care, It describes the development of the Global Research Interprofessional Network (GRIN) and the In-2-Theory network from its origins. In this chapter, the journey to GRIN and In-2-Theory, the Resurgence of GRIN2Theory, the Drivers of Success, Network Sustainability and Resilience, and the Lessons Learned are discussed. Similar to other IPECP networks, sustainability remains a high priority for IPR.Global. It is therefore imperative that IPR.Global be innovative and offer something unique and of value. Lessons learned from our experience and from our scoping review on collaborative networks indicate that key factors for a sustainable interprofessional collaboration need to include a committed membership, the maintenance of dialogue, ensuring clarity, respecting diversity, and engagement in process/contextual factors. Relevance, buy-in and social capital for members are key principles for ensuring a sustainable network. IPR.Global will remain focused on global leadership in IPECP Research, as our practice, and will continue to promote and advocate for evidence-informed policies and practices. We foster and facilitate theory-driven, methodologically rigorous IPECP research to achieve better health, better care, better value and better work experience for all. 

Link to book web-page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-40281-5

For more information contact chapter author Dr. Hossein Khalili: hkhalili@wisc.edu