Media Release

Mangaluru, May 26: The second cohort of public health students from Nitte University left for USA to participate in the summer institute at University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. Four students from Master of Public Health (MPH) students are taking up summer school for three weeks’ period from May 23 to June 10.

Dr Jeena J P, Ganesh Narayan Shrestha, Kordorlang Lyngdoh and Dr V Monisha from department of public health, K S Hegde Medical Academy got this opportunity of getting global exposure in the field of public health where they take additional capacity building on writing competitive grant proposals, project management, Global Food Systems, use of technology in public health practice.

Additional credits for their MPH programme is given as a part of student exchange programme under MoU for student scholarships. Every year four public students from Nitte will visit summer institute in Minneapolis and St Paul campus in Minnesota. The vice chancellor, registrar, director (R & D) of Nitte University, dean of KSHEMA and head of the department of public health have congratulated this team for their additional skill building.