Susan Topel of Open.Michigan is reporting that four of its students are participating in the Clinton Global initiative. The purpose of the Clinton Global initiative is to bring together world leaders to discuss global problems. The U-M students proposal is to make health OER available in Ghana, South Africa and Liberia. From the blog post:
The inadequate density and distribution of healthcare providers negatively affects health outcomes around the globe. In Africa in particular, too few health care professionals are being trained to meet local needs. A key barrier in both developed and developing countries is the lack of instructor capacity to teach both basic and clinical sciences, complicated by the duplication of effort in developing learning materials that can be shared as OER.
