Partnership for Education of Health Professionals

Key achievements from our collaborative activities during PEP Phase 1 2025-2029 include:

• Convened over 90 delegates from India, Kenya and Denmark at the PEP Symposium 2025 in Copenhagen.

• Co-developed and launched the MOOC Tackling Cardiometabolic Diseases – Insights from India on Coursera in May 2025.

• Co-organised and delivered six webinars in 2025 through the bimonthly series Innovations in Online and Blended Learning for Health Professions

• Education.

• Joined two visits to Kenya involving over 50 Danish

• and Kenyan stakeholders co-designing the next Kenyan PEP projects.

• Hosted the international research symposium Feedback in Higher and Professional Education with 18 leading scholars from Europe, Australia and the

• UK.

• Continued eight educational research mentorships with Indian PEP partner faculty, with the first manuscripts submitted to journals.

• Hosted a delegation from the Public Health Foundation of India for a capacity strengthening visit in Copenhagen.

• Initiated six Communities of Practice and one Working Group to convene PEP partner staff from multiple institutions around key thematic areas.

• Expanded the PEP-UCPH team significantly, including the recruitment of two PhD students, two postdoctoral researchers, a research assistant and a senior education advisor.

• Established a new Health Workforce research group at the Department of Public Health, meeting biweekly and hosting international scholars.

• Secured ethical clearance at UCPH for the full PEPUCPH research programme and initiated PhD data collection.

Link to full annual report: PEP-UCPH Activities and Learning 2025

Key achievements from our collaborative activities during PEP Phase 1 2022-2024 include:

Over 300 faculty and support staff participated in onsite workshops on online and blended learning techniques at partner institutions in India.

• Three exchange visits to UCPH with 20 staff from AIIMS, CMC, and PHFI.

• One Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on CMD prevention, management, and care for health professionals jointly developed by CMC and UCPH, ready for launch in November 2024.

• Two video-based online learning resources (An introduction to HPE research and Innovative approaches to OBL) targeting faculty and teaching-learning specialists at HPE institutions in LMICs.

• Nine online seminars on educational research and online and blended learning with almost 700 participants (and to be continued).

• Six health professions education research mentorships established between Indian staff and experienced international researchers.
  

• Jensen, L. X., Bearman, M., Boud, D., & Konradsen, F. (2025). Feedback encounters in doctoral supervision: The role of generative AI chatbots. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 0(0), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2025.2478155
• Jensen, L. X., Buhl, A., Hussain, S., Karan, A., Konradsen, F., & Bearman, M. (2023). Digital education for health professionals in India: A scoping review of the research. BMC Medical Education, 23(1), 561. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04552-2
• Jensen, L. X., Buhl, A., Sharma, A., & Bearman, M. (2024). Generative AI and higher education: A review of claims from the first months of ChatGPT. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01265-3
• Karan, A., Hussain, S., Jensen, L. X., Buhl, A., Bearman, M., & Zodpey, S. (2024). Non-communicable diseases, digital education and considerations for the Indian context – a scoping review. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 1280. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18765-7

PEP partners in India

• All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
• Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
• Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore

PEP partners in Kenya

• Amref Health Africa
• Ministry of Health (MoH)
• Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC)
• African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
• Non-Communicable Disease Alliance Kenya (NCDAK)

PEP partners in Denmark

• Absalon University College
• Via University College
• KP University College

Other collaborators

• Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University, Australia
• Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Denmark