Here are three interesting training opportunities.
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Rapid Assessment and Response (RAR)
20-23 February 2007, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Learn all the knowledge and skills required to be able to
successfully conduct RAR in your own city-specific or country-
specific situation. The course will cover the relationship between
`Rapid Assessment' and `Response'; the background of individual and
public health issues associated with both injecting drug use and non-
injecting drug use; principles of RAR; response and intervention
design; community participation and advocacy; organising a RAR; and
methodology (existing information, sampling, interviews, focus
groups, observation, research skills, and basic estimation
epidemiology). The RAR short course will be facilitated by expert
speakers from across the region, including Nicholas Thomson (Johns
Hopkins University / Chiang Mai University's Research Institute for
Health Science), Siddharth Singh (AHRN Myanmar) and Paul Hardacre
(AHRN Thailand Secretariat), who will outline both theory and
specific examples of successful RAR. Make sure that your program or
intervention project is a success by becoming skilled in RAR!
Harm Reduction: Health and Social Care for People Using Drugs
14-21 March 2007, Bangkok, Thailand
Does your job revolve around the interface of HIV and AIDS, high risk
behaviours including drug use, and environmental factors like
poverty? Find out more about these complex subjects from more than a
dozen Asian and international expert speakers, complemented by site
visits to good practice harm reduction organisations and programs.
The course will equip you with knowledge and skills about global and
regional drug use, associated risk behaviours and harms; drug policy
approaches (including harm reduction; harm reduction interventions
and their effectiveness); outreach to people using drugs;
establishing and managing a drop-in centre; needle and syringe
exchange programs (NSEP); safer injecting and vein care;
pharmacotherapy (methadone); antiretroviral therapy (ART);
amphetamine-type substances (ATS) in Asia; social reintegration and
poverty alleviation; effective advocacy and the creation of an
enabling environment for harm reduction; drug user self-organisation
and effective harm reduction networks; and establishing relationships
with police / law enforcement, religious groups, and other important
community stakeholders. In 2006, this course attracted health and
drug control policy makers, health program developers and managers,
grassroots service providers (including outreach workers and team
leaders), community representatives, drug treatment workers, social
workers, and medical and nursing professionals, along with academics
and researchers from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Taiwan,
Myanmar, Indonesia, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Sweden, and
Australia. In 2007, it's back by popular demand!
For further details about these forthcoming AHRN training courses,
including information about course fees and how to register, email
training@ahrn.net
The East-West Center invites applicants to its 38th annual Summer Seminar on Population from May 29 - June 28, 2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii. This Summer Seminar consists of three concurrent workshops, each with its own independent instructional program. Workshop 3: Communicating with Policymakers about Population and Health is cosponsored by the INFO Project at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs and the East-West Center.
Workshop 3: Communicating with Policymakers about Population and Health
Workshop Objective
The objective of this workshop is to increase the use of research findings and professional knowledge and experience to improve population and health policies and programs. Sessions are designed to help participants identify the policy implications of population and health findings, to understand how research results and professional knowledge can influence the policy process, and to communicate with policymakers in simple and compelling formats. Participants will:
* Explore the policy process and successful strategies for policy change
* Design strategies to communicate research findings to policymakers
* Use electronic and print media to obtain research results and other information that puts their own work in a broader context
* Develop hands-on skills for communicating with policymakers, both directly and through the media
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for researchers, program managers, and other professionals working in population and health. Participants should have computer experience and be fluent in English. They should bring their own research results or project data that can be used to address a policy problem and be familiar with the most recent Demographic and Health Survey or equivalent national survey for their home country.
Each participant will make a series of oral presentations and written summaries in appropriate formats for policy audiences. They will learn how to use computer-graphics software to enhance their oral and written presentation skills.
How to Apply:
1. Download additional information at http://www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/misc/ssapplication.pdf or contact sumsem@eastwestcenter.org
2. Download and complete the application form at http://www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/misc/ssapplication.pdf
3. Submit your completed application and recommendation by December 31, 2006 to:
38th Summer Seminar on Population
East-West Center, Population and Health Studies
1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848-1601, U.S.A.
Telephone: 1-808-944-7332 (Eugene Alexander)
Fax: 1-808-944-7490
Email: sumsem@eastwestcenter.org
Applicants are advised to seek funding from their home organizations or from national or international agencies. The East-West Center and the INFO Project can provide financial assistance to a few outstanding candidates.
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