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06/Jan/2011
To ensure the updating of Virtual Campus of Public Health classroom (VCPH) during the year 2011, will be performed ,in the month of January, the maintenance work required by the system.
Debido a esta situación es posible que en algunos momentos el acceso al Aula Virtual se encuentre temporalmente limitado, lo cual esperamos restablecer lo antes posible.
Because of this situation it can happen that access to the Virtual Classroom can be temporarily limited, we hope to restore as soon as...
04/Jan/2011
Over 22th and 23th December, 2010, was developed in Havana, Cuba, the Sixth Regional Workshop of Virtual Campus of Public Health, Node Cuba :"Assessment of Experiences. " This event took place in classrooms and laboratories of the National School of Public Health (ENSAP) of Cuba and was chaired by Dr. J Baudilio Jardines Méndez, Coordinator of the Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH) and DRCs. Pastor Castell - Florit Serrate ENSAP Director.
As part of this workshop was an exchange that...
16/Dec/2010
Message from the Director of the Pan American Health Organization
Mensaje de la Directora de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud
Mensagem da diretora da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde
Message de la directrice de l'Organisation Panaméricaine de la Santé
Mensaje de la Directora de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud
Mensagem da diretora da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde
Message de la directrice de l'Organisation Panaméricaine de la Santé
16/Dec/2010
On December 2, in the City of Managua, Nicaragua, after the close of the Military Medical Conference, Dr. Jose B. Jardines on behalf of the Pan American Health Organization presented the keynote address "Public Health Virtual Campus a model of network learning (net-learning)" which promotes the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the processes training and training of human resources in health.
He explained that the VCPH is a collaborative learning network, in which...
16/Dec/2010
On days 1, 2 and 3 December in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was held the "Virtual Training Course Medical PHC" evaluation, which developed its first version year 2010 in the Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH)
This event was held with the participation of coordinators, tutors and students of the course, some of which were virtually and was chaired by Dr. Rosa Maria Borrell, PAHO regional consultant and Ms. Monica Abramzon as academic coordinator of the course.
During the conference discussed...
16/Dec/2010
On 29 and 30 November took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Assessment Workshop Course "Train the Tutors" and "Design of educational materials", made both during the year 2010 in the Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH).
This workshop was attended by coordinators, tutors and students from both courses, as well as the participation of Dr. Rosa Maria Borrell, regional consultant for PAHO and Dr. Jose B. Jardines, General Coordinator of the VCPH. During the same analyzed the positive and...
02/Dec/2010
The Leaders in International Health Program is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
In 1985, a group of professionals in the Department of Human Resource Development of the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO) agreed on the need to develop a new type of leadership in the region that would allow better understanding and practice of changing the processes of international cooperation and the proper role of the Organization.
Attached are the links to follow the...
29/Nov/2010
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO / WHO) recently published on its website a call for the Leaders in International Health "Edmundo Granda Ugalde" 2011.
This program aims to help develop the Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017 by strengthening the capacities of countries in the region to understand, act and make a positive influence on the international determinants of health, promote their interests and conclude intersectoral health actions in the international sphere, guided by...
18/Nov/2010
On March 2011 will start the course "Integrating HIV and infectious diseases prevalent in the primary care level", through which it intends to train about 200 people from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Panama and Nicaragua.
This course is a collaborative effort between the Pan American Health Organization, Johns Hopkins University and the Gorgas Memorial Institute for the Study of Health of Panama.
Will be held from the Virtual Classroom to countries in the Virtual Campus of Public Health...
18/Nov/2010
The project "Regional Competency Framework" has with groups of experts in all domains defined in the Mexico Workshop 2010.
Is expected by December this year there is already a first draft containing the proposed general skills for health workers in the Americas. Experts participating in this initiative from Peru, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and the OPS.
In early 2011, will meet in Lima, Peru, the country coordinators of the initiative to define the methodological guidelines to follow...