Professional Development Opportunities
The Nossal 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 Nossal Institute can also deliver tailored short courses in Australia and overseas.
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 for Programming
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.
Environmental Challenges and Global Health
This 5-day course will look at the three key public health threats that require complex multidisciplinary solutions: climate change, water security and nuclear weapons. Students will explore these interrelated planetary challenges, their profound implications for population health and the demand for high leel integrated problem solving in the coming decades.
Health Promotion
Students will have the opportunity in this 5-day course to learn the history of health promotion and the models of health and health promotion, along with key theoretical approaches explaining change in individuals, organisations and systems. You will be introduced to the fundamental elements of successful health promotion and application to different health issues in different settings and sectors and in different populations in Australia and other developed and developing countries. Guest presenters will include key leaders in health promotion from government, leading health NGO's and academics in Victoria.
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.
Practice of 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.
Sex Work, Drugs, Sex between Men and HIV
This largely interactive and participatory course uses case studies from around the world to highlight the myriad of factors that contribute to HIV vulnerability of sex workers and examines the overlapping vulnerabilities of sex work and injecting drug use (IDU) and men who have sex with men (MSM). It explores the themes of stigma and discrimination, gender inequities, violence, trafficking, funding policies and legal frameworks, and their impact on HIV vulnerability and mitigation.
Courses dates in 2012:
| Subject Name |
Subject Dates |
|---|---|
| International Adolescent Health |
6 - 10 February 2012 |
| Global Health Research for Programming |
13 - 17 February 2012 |
| Health Promotion |
20 - 24 February 2012 |
| Environmental Challenges and Global Health |
28 May - 1 June 2012 |
|
Systems for Global Health |
9 - 13 July 2012 |
| Sex Work, Drugs, Sex between Men & HIV |
16 - 20 July 2012 |
| Disability in Developing Countries |
17 - 21 September 2012 |
| Practice of Public Health Leadership |
24 - 28 September 2012 |
| International Child Health |
25 - 26 October & 29 October - 1 November 2012 |
| Primary Health Care in Jamkhed |
18 November - 8 December 2012, 13 January - 2 February 2013 |
You can download the 2012 course descriptions (PDF) or in an alternative format.
Please apply using the Nossal Institute short course application form
For more information, please contact:
Program Officer - International Health Education and Learning
Email: ni-edinfo@unimelb.edu.au