CHP/PCOR
Stanford University
117 Encina Commons
Stanford, CA 94305-6019

pbrutlag@stanford.edu
(650) 723-0614 (voice)
(650) 723-1919 (fax)

Research Interests
issues in international health; appropriate technologies for health; health and science education; serious games (games for learning)

Pauline Brutlag has been hired under the auspices of the Stanford School of Medicine and CHP/PCOR to be a Manager of Program Development for International Health. Her responsibilities include implementing a course in international health and creating a comprehensive, unified online presence for international health at Stanford.

Brutlag has been an active member of the Stanford community for 12 years. She has an undergraduate degree in Human Biology (1998) and a masters in Learning, Design and Technology (1999). In 1998, she received the Albert H. Hastorf Award for Outstanding Service for excellence in teaching, from the Program in Human Biology. She has worked in industry as a quality assurance engineer and online community manager (Macromedia, 1999-2002). Since then she has been a program manager at SUMMIT (Stanford University Medical Media & Information Technologies), where in partnership with PATH (a nonprofit international health organization) she headed the technical and educational design side of the AIM e-Learning project, dedicated to delivering online content to national health policy makers.

In her work for AIM e-Learning, Brutlag traveled to India, Uganda, Thailand, WHO Geneva and CDC Atlanta, where between designing and implementing appropriate technologies to deliver educational content, she conducted training sessions, usability studies and user needs surveys. She was introduced to the major issues and players in international health, in discussions with global partners and in-country staff.

At Stanford, Brutlag worked with medical students to develop the new course Rethinking International Health. The course uses online interviews of important figures in international health as a springboard for discussion of the major issues.

She is also currently working with PATH and the World Health Organization in the redesign of a WHO computer-based tool for measles strategic planning. Her other research interests include the use of simulations and "serious games" (games for learning) in medical and health education. Her work on AIM e-Learning and the use of Web-based patient simulators for assessment in medical education has been published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings. She is fluent in conversational French and serves as a volunteer patient educator at Stanford's Pacific Free Clinic.

Other affiliations
Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies (SUMMIT)