Instructor: Professor Sharon McDonnell, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School

Project: ECS 153 and 154 (Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health), required classes for the Masters of Public Health (MPH) graduate program at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), are being extensively redesigned. Our curricular goals are to (1) facilitate experiential learning with a more creative and personalized approach, and (2) to create a more interactive, multimedia-teaching environment that will include virtual or on-line learning options to reduce the time students are passively sitting in classrooms. By utilizing video and multimedia technology, as well as digital story-telling techniques, we aim to create a more interactive, student driven and created learning experience and explore creative and compelling methods of public health communication.