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28/Mar/2011
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO / WHO) and the Universidad del Norte (UNINORTE) will welcome this valuable learning experience on risk communication in public health, both as a field of knowledge from practice, and its application to the context of his country and the region.
During the development of the Diploma, will support the continued assistance and tutors from the thematic modules that will take place over the next seven months.
15/Mar/2011
Between 14 and 18 March of this year has celebrate in Panama a tutor training course for Project Integration of HIV and other infectious diseases prevalent in the 1st. level of care.
This course has two main purposes, the first immediate and the second with a strategic vision:
Select and accredit professionals who will serve as tutors in the Project Integration of HIV and other infectious diseases prevalent in the 1st. level of care.
Promote collaborative work in the region and...
10/Mar/2011
On 24 February in the city of Quito, Ecuador, was the official ceremony to launch the Node VCPH-Ecuador with the presence of officials of the Ministry of Health chaired by Dr. Carmen Laspina Deputy Minister, Dr. Celia Riera Representative PAHO and the presence of the deans of the universities that make up Node 8 and their respective technical teams.
Prior to the launch will be a meeting at the Ministry of Public Health with the Directors of Science and Technology and Human...
22/Feb/2011
Call to March 4
The Latin American Network of Scientific and Technical Information on Vaccines (UNDP) with the academic coordination of the Finlay Institute (Cuba), the Virtual University Health Infomed (Cuba) and the National School of Public Health (Public Health Ministry, Cuba) announce the course " Prevention of meningococcal disease "to be offered in the Virtual Campus of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in the space of Countries of the virtual classroom courses.
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14/Feb/2011
Very successful can be assessed by the development of MoodleHealth 2011 held in Havana, Cuba, on days 8.9 and 10 February.
The inauguration on February 8, was delivered by Dr. Ariel Delgado Ramos, Director of computer science on Ministry of Public Health of Cuba, after which they were developed different presentations of the morning session. On the afternoon of this day was held a very successful meeting attended by representatives from each network node VCPH at the event in which they...
24/Jan/2011
The School of the Americas (COLAM) and the Inter-American Organization (OUI-IOHE), call for the Summer University on "Governance, Leadership and Public Policy" which addresses four areas:
1) Social Determinants of Health
2) Gender
3) Indigenous people and
4) Information Society and Knowledge.
This call relates to the 2011 edition of the Summer University College of the Americas "Governance, Leadership and Public Policy with emphasis on the thematic area of the Social Determinants of Health. "...
21/Jan/2011
The National School of Public Health at the Medical University of Havana, Cuba, in coordination with the Pan American Health Organization and the Inter-American Consortium of Universities, call to the second edition of the Diploma "Management for the promotion of health" with a humanistic approach based on the theories, concepts and methods from different areas of scientific knowledge.
11/Jan/2011
Broadcast news article on New technologies in classrooms in Spain's National Radio (Radio 5, Section "All News"). The same is presented and justified as follows:
New technologies are already in the classroom. They have become an essential part of education. Students in this century are digital natives, adapted as teachers to develop digital media for learning. Teachers each day to encourage more students who use laptops in class
The story is in audio podcast format and lasts 10 minutes. In the...
11/Jan/2011
How to promote the use of social media in education and training and adult education systems in Europe. Practical example of the European project SVEA
More and more applications use social media like Twitter, blogs and Facebook in our daily lives both personally and professionally. In addition, many educational institutions are becoming aware that these applications can be integrated effectively in their learning systems. However, for the moment there are very few who use them to...
11/Jan/2011
Throughout 2010 the team of Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH), both at regional and country nodes, along with tutors and coordinators of the different courses, developed a hard work to improve the services, products and different methodological and technological tools provided by the Virtual Campus.
Throughout the year we worked very closely with the nodes within the network of the VCPH in different countries, performing virtual meetings every two months to check the experiences and...