About
Sunhea is passionate about capacity building through technology enhanced and enabled learning to improve health, especially infants and children in low-resourced settings. She has interests in the design, development and scale-up of technology enabled/enhanced capacity building solutions for medicine, nutrition and public health globally. Trained in computer science, multimedia, human computer interaction (HCI) and learning psychology, she is specialised in interaction design for optimal user/learner experience, and innovative and interactive learning solution design, implementation, scale-up and impact evaluation. As a certified PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner, her interests and expertise also include effective project and programme management.
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Biography
Sunhea’s work focuses on global health capacity building through TEL. She founded the Faculty eLearning team in 2005 and successfully led many innovative TEL and global eHealth projects to completion, i.e. Virtual Patients, psychiatry portal, public health eLearning, nutrition and malnutrition eLearning, pompe’s disease and Understanding Insulin FutureLearn MOOC.
Her recent and on-going TEL projects are EU Erasmus+ Capacity Building projects in early nutrition - ENeA South East Asia (ENeA-SEA) and Improving Early Nutrition in South Africa (ImpENSA), and an impact evaluation study of malnutrition eLearning in Ghana, Guatemala, Colombia and El Salvador. The malnutrition eLearning has been used by >20,000 from over 120 countries and the impact study has shown that it is effective in training health professionals, leading to change in clinical practice and reducing case fatality rate by severe acute malnutrition significantly. Sunhea’s works with health professionals in limited-resource settings – Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Ghana, facilitating and mentoring them in the development and rolling out of nutrition eLearning appropriate to their settings.
Sunhea has interests and expertise in the design, implementation and effect evaluation of TEL capacity building solutions for medical, nutrition and public health training globally. Trained in computer science, multimedia, human computer interaction (HCI) and learning psychology, she is specialised in interface design for optimal user experience, innovative and interactive learning solution design, curriculum integration and implementation of TEL at scale. As a certified PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner, her interests and expertise also include effective project and programme management.
Prizes
- Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award (2010)
- Staff Achievement Award (2006)