Dr Basiro Davey: HEAT Deputy Director (Ethiopia)

Role

Developing training materials and leading intensive curriculum design and writing workshops in Ethiopia with over 50 Ethiopian health experts from a range of specialisms, including epidemiology, public health, obstetrics, communicable diseases and long-term conditions. The workshops develop individual and collective capacity to produce well-structured, clearly illustrated modules for tutor-supported study by Ethiopia’s rural Health Extension Workers. Academic editing of the modules and contributing additional interactive elements, photographs, diagrams and self-assessment questions are key aspects of my role. Participating in the training workshops for around 100 tutors, supervisors and officials from six Ethiopian regions, and writing tutor-marked assignments testing students’ knowledge across the curriculum, are among my contributions to implementing the programme in Ethiopia.

Career

Basiro is an expert in distance learning pedagogy who joined The Open University (OU) after completing a Doctorate in Tumour Immunology. She is now Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences and was Health Sciences Awards Director until her secondment to the HEAT Programme, leading the development of the OU’s undergraduate and postgraduate modules and awards in this interdisciplinary area of science. In her OU career she has produced hundreds of multi-media educational materials for distance-learning modules in many areas of public health, including immunology, epidemiology, communicable diseases, sexually transmitted infections and cancers. In addition to her role in the HEAT programme, she is currently developing Science teaching and research collaborations between the OU and Addis Ababa University.

Contact details

g.c.b.davey@open.ac.uk

Dr Basiro Davey

The Open University

Walton Hall

Milton Keynes

MK7 6AA

Tel: +44 (0) 1908 653326