Professional Development Opportunities
The Institute delivers a growing program of short courses in international health in collaboration with regional partners. Most of them are offered annually in Melbourne. Upon request, the Institute can also deliver tailored short courses in Australia and overseas.
Community Interventions for Tobacco Control
The course outlines current trends in the use and health effects of tobacco internationally and aims to introduce 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. This course is not offered every year. Contact Joni Law on jycl@unimelb.edu.au to find out details.
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.
Global Health Research and Practice
This course provides a comprehensive overview of applied research methods in global health, with a focus on developing 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 dissemination of research findings and development of research protocols and project proposals.
HIV and AIDS: An Evolving Global Response
This single-semester course, delivered over 12 weeks, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 investigate social influences on tobacco use and for program/policy formulation. The course aims to stimulate the development of innovative strategies for tobacco control and strengthen the linkages for advocacy and policy change. This course is not offered every year. Contact Joni Law on jycl@unimelb.edu.au to find out details.
Courses to be offered in 2009-10 and dates:
- International Adolescent Health: 2009 (this will be offered again on 8 – 12 February 2010)
- Global Health Research and Practice: 2009 (this will be offered again on 18-19 and 22-24 February 2010)
- HIV and AIDS: an evolving global response: Semester 1, 2010 (12 2-hour lectures on Tuesday mornings, beginning first week of March; registration through Community Access Program of the University of Melbourne, www.unimelb.edu.au/community/access
- Public Health Leadership: 29 June - 3 July 2009 (This course will be offered again from 28 June - 2 July 2010)
- Sex Work, Drugs and HIV: A Global Outline [New course]: 19 – 23 July
- Disability in Developing Countries: 21 – 25 September 2009 (This course will be offered again on 20 – 24 September 2010)
- International Child Health: 11 – 13 and 16 – 18 November 2009
- Primary Health Care in Jamkhed, India: (two 3-week residential courses in India): 22 Nov - 12 Dec 2009 and 10 - 30 Jan 2010 (for details on these two courses, please go to "Jamkhed" page on this website)
Please apply using the Nossal Institute short course application form
For more information, please contact:
Joni Law, Program Officer - International Health Education and Learning
Tel: +613 8344 0914 Email: jycl@unimelb.edu.au