Trainings
Upcoming trainings
Please note the closing date for applications is 22 January 2012
About the trainings
The subjects and purpose
Subjects covered include: principles of infectious disease transmission, risk assessment, surveillance, outbreak investigation and response, infection control, social mobilization, pneumonia, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria and other vector borne-diseases, measles and other vaccine preventable diseases, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, pandemic influenza, natural disasters. Course are usually run in various locations in collaboration with universities or NGOs.
Recent trainings
Training on Communicable Diseases in Humanitarian Emergencies and Disasters
- Place Sydney, Australia (joint course with the UNSW, 28 November - 2 December 2011
Communicable diseases in emergencies course
- Place: Beirut, Lebanon, WHO/EMRO course Control of cholera and other epidemic-prone diarrhoeal diseases in humanitarian emergencies
Date: 26 - 30 September 2011
- Place: London, United Kingdom (joint course with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Date: 11-15 April 2011
- Place: Geneva, Switzerland (WHO Headquarters
Date: 30 August to 3 September 2010
- Place: Sydney, Australia (UNSW)
Date: 29 November to 3 December 2010
- Place: London, United Kingdom (joint course with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Date: 12-16 April 2010
- Place: New York, USA (WHO course hosted by the International Rescue Committee)
Date: 8-12 February 2010
- Place: Sydney, Australia (joint course with University of New South Wales)
Date: 23-27 November 2009
- Place: Geneva, Switzerland (WHO headquarters)
Date: 21-25 September 2009
Place: London, United Kingdom (joint course with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) - training materials
Date: 30 March-3 April 2009
