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eLearning Resources

Maternal and Child Health

• Integrated Management of Childhood Illness computerized training tool
  ICATT is an eLearning tool to support the implementation of the WHO/UNICEF strategy on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). The tool provides the possibility to adapt the generic IMCI guidelines at national and sub-national levels.

Basic course on Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)

• Basic course on Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
  This course that will enable you to identify and use evidence-based practices for sexual and reproductive health care in under-resourced settings. You will become familiar with the basics of EBM. The course will help you to take the evidence from systematic reviews into practice, improve and gain knowledge and attitudes on EBM and hence improve practice.

Mental Health

• Training opportunities
  These degree programs aim to develop capacity within countries to reform and/or develop mental health policy, legislation and services, in order to promote mental health, facilitate effective service delivery and better protect the rights of people with mental disorders.
• International Diploma in Mental Health Law and Human Rights
• International Master in Mental Health Policy and Services

Injury and Violence Prevention

• TEACH-VIP E-Learning
  This eLearning course is a comprehensive injury and violence prevention curriculum developed for self-paced, self-administered training online. It has been adapted from the facilitator-based training curriculum TEACH-VIP.

Vaccine Safety Basic

• WHO eLearning course on Vaccine Safety Basics
  WHO introduces the eLearning course on Vaccine Safety basics to help establish a shared understanding among all stake-holders involved in vaccine pharmacovigilance. The course is designed to serve a broad of range institutions, and individuals involved in vaccine safety from vaccinating health professionals to national regulatory staff, immunization staff, and other agencies.

Vaccination Policy

• ProVac eLearning courses (in support of evidence-based decisions regarding vaccine introduction.
  The ProVac e-learning courses provide national immunization managers and other national and global partners with user-friendly educational material covering key vaccination issues.

International Health Regulation

• You can access a series of self-learning courses on International Health Regulation through this link.
• Securing global health: Fourth IHR implementation course
  Securing global health - IHR implementation course The objectives of this course are to strengthen critical human resources engaged to set-up and manage systems for securing global public health under the IHR implementation framework, and to develop communication capacities for efficient international collaboration.
• Biostatistics: New CD-ROM for self learning
  The main objective of this self learning programme is to understand the purpose of biostatistics through realistic cases and to acquire basic biostatistics skills that can be applied to your work. The target audiences of this training are medical and biomedical students, laboratory specialists and other professionals who need to use or understand basic biostatistics. However, it may also be a helpful reminder to epidemiologists.

Cervical Cancer Prevention

• • Cervical cancer prevention international programme
    This eLearning course has been designed to provide information on HPV and cervical cancer. It offers information on the latest scientific evidence, and the progress that has been made in the prevention of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical cancer.

Health and Human Rights

• eLearning course on Health and Human Rights - Dimensions and Strategies
  This online training intends to generate increased clarity and understanding about the important synergy between health and human rights. This course is being offered through GIZ Global Campus 21. Please see the course annoucement to learn more.
• Course Announcement Health and Human Rights 2011_2012
  pdf, 137kb

Gender and Humanitarian Action

• Gender e-Learning course helps try deliver equal health care to women, children and men
  This eLearning course covers the basic steps that a humanitarian worker must take to ensure gender equality in programming. It also includes information on the core issues of gender and how it relates to other aspects of humanitarian response.

Management of Rape Survivors

• Clinical management of rape survivors
  This eLearning course is on the clinical management of women, men and children who are victims of rape. It is intended for use by qualified health-care providers in developing protocols for the management of rape survivors in emergencies, taking into account available resources, materials, and drugs, and national policies and procedures. It can also be used in planning health-care services and training health-care providers.