The following training opportunity is available for intersted persons.

Disability in Developing Countries
Date: 22 September 2008 - 26 September 2008
Location: Melbourne, Australia

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.

Content will include: current definitions of disability; causes and prevalence of common disabilities; skills important for working with the major impairment groups; issues related to equity, access, advocacy and prevention; design of disability programs; capacity building for disability programs; constraints and solutions for sustainability of disability programs; and project management issues related to disability programs.

The course is co-ordinated by Beth Fuller and will be taught by staff and associates of the collaborating institutions and by guest presenters.

Level: professional , post-graduate

Participants: health program planners, development workers and health practitioners; students of postgraduate courses in public health, international and community development, the allied health profession and nursing.

Tuition, fee, lodging: AUD1100, includes tuition and reading materials, but not travel, accommodation, health cover, visa and other expenses. For further information please contact the organisers.

Contact Information:
Joni Law
Programme Officer - Education and Training
Australian International Health Institute
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia
Tel: +61 3 8344 9123
Fax: +61 3 8344 9130
E-mail: jycl@unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://www.aihi.unimelb.edu.au