AIHI delivers a growing program of short courses in international
health in collaboration with university and regional partners. The following courses are offered annually in Melbourne. Upon request, AIHI can deliver tailored short courses for delivery in Australia and overseas.
| COURSE |
DETAILS |
BROCHURE |
| Community Interventions for Tobacco Control |
The course outlines current trends in
the use and health effects of tobacco internationally and
aims to intrduce participants to smoking cessation methods
and processed for reaching and involving the community in
planning effective interventions for tobacco control. By the
end of the course, participants will produce a draft outline
for a community intervention. |
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| Disability in Developing Countries |
The course aims to increase knowledge
of the issues surrounding disability in developing countries;
to provide skills for designing, implementing and evaluating
disability programs; and to introduce the concepts and means
of mainstreaming disability into development programs. |
[ 42kb] |
| The Global Health Impacts of Drug Use |
This course outlines the sources, characteristics,
routes of administration and effects of key drugs, enabling
participants to acquire an understanding of the processes
of illicit drug manufacture and trafficking, and patterns
of drug use in the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide, their
outcome in the social context, and to critique the policies
and practical responses to drug use in different countries. |
[ 46kb] |
| Global Health Research and Practice |
This course provides a comprehensive overview of applied research methods in global health, with a focus on devleoping country settings. Topics will include: understanding research within the constraints of developing countries; identification of research questions; qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches to research appropriate in developing country settings; ethical considerations, application and diseemination of research findings and development of research protocols and project proposals. |
[ 46kb] |
| Harm Reduction: Controlling HIV in Drug Users |
The course describes the interactions
between illicit drug use and blood-borne viruses (BBV) and
the major elements of harm reduction practice employed in
Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide. Participants
will carry out a rapid situation assessment of drug use and
HIV risk, design a package of harm reduction measures tailored
to a particular regional epidemic and to critique the various
responses to HIV and other BBVs among drug users currently
in operation. |
[ 41kb] |
| HIV/AIDS: An Evolving Global Response |
This course will provide students with basic tools to face the challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic internationally by exploring the current state of this pandemic in the new era of expanding treatment options. Topics to be discussed include: the history, epidemiology, science and impact of the disease; prevention theory and practice; transmission and vulnerability; policy and human rights; the global network of protagonists fighting HIV; and treatment and care with a focus on resource-poor settings.
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[ 41kb] |
| International Adolescent Health |
The course aims to critique a number
of frameworks used to address adolescent health needs and
to incorporate the lifecycle approach into public health programming
for young people. At the end of the course, participants should
be able to develop strategies for effective engagement of
young people and their communities to improve adolescent health
and wellbeing, and to engage stakeholders in health promotion
and advocacy for adolescent health. |
[ 36kb] |
| International Child Health |
In this course, the most important global
causes of childhood mortality and morbidity, frameworks, institutions
and current programs in community child health and school
health are described. Participants will explore the broader
social determinants of health, current strategies for prevention
and management of important causes of childhood illness. They
will be equipped to identify new approaches to the promotion
of child development and child human rights. |
[ 36kb] |
| Public Health Leadership |
This course introduces students to the real world of public health. It covers the changing social, economic, commercial, cultural and political determinants that influence health and ill health; examines the political, bureaucratic, business, media and community power and processes at international, national and local levels; and looks at characteristics of good leaders and fundamentals of leading and managing efficiently a public health team. |
[ 36kb] |
| Tobacco Control and Gender |
This course aims to raise an awareness
of the links between gender and tobacco use internationally
and it explores research techniques that can be used to investiogate
social influences on tobacco use and for program/policy formulation.
The course aims to stimulate the development of innovtaive
strategies for tobacco control and strengthen the linkages
for advocacy and policy change. |
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