The new Masters in Occupational Safety and Health is designed to contribute to the expansion of competent Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professionals who can compensate for current personnel shortages in this domain. This one-year programme, to be held in English, includes an Internet-based distance learning phase, a face-to-face residential period on the ITC/ILO's campus in Turin followed by another distance phase for the preparation of the dissertation. The proposed programme combines the advantages of the academic experience in OSH of Turin University with the ITC/ILO's international training experience. An international approach has been applied to the contents, the methodology development as well as to the composition of the training team. This programme involves participants from both developing and developed countries, who will thus have an opportunity to share their different experiences. Furthermore, it also offers a range of learning situations in which participants can enhance their analytical and problem solving skills. Please note that jointly with the application form, you must send a nomination letter in which the institution/sponsor should indicate how the candidate will be financed.
Applications: http://osh.itcilo.org/how-to-participate/how-to-apply
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The general objective of this course is to strengthen the capacity of planning, developing and governing the national efforts to improve Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). Content includes: the International Labour Organisation (ILO) experience: ILO Global Strategy on Occupational Safety and Health; the Conventions no. 155 and 187; OSH national policy, systems, programmes and profiles; OSH governance: principles, policies and decision making framework; the national policy on OSH; components of the OSH national system; elaboration of a National OSH Profile; planning of policies and strategies on OSH; procedures to formulate a National Programme on OSH; launching, implementation and coordination, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms; OSH national models and experiences of selected countries; and the experiences of participating countries. The cost of participation, excluding international air travel, is EUR 3,250 (course fees EURO 1,920 and participant subsistence EURO 1,330) payable in advance by the participant or his or her sponsoring organisation. Please note that jointly with the application form, you must send a nomination letter in which the institution/sponsor should indicate how the candidate will be financed.
Applications: http://socialprotection.itcilo.org/forms/A906124/
The general objective of this course is to strengthen the capacity of employment injury institutions for the management of the occupational accidents and diseases and the promotion of the prevention approach on occupational safety and health. Contents of the course include: introduction to the occupational safety and health: International Labour Organisation (ILO) principles and fundamentals; the ILO experiences and the international labour standards; the employment injury institutions: structure and financing; compensation, medical assistance and rehabilitation; national Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) governance; the employment injury institutions and the function of prevention; the recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases; the list of occupational accidents and diseases; the costs of accidents: impact at the national level and at the enterprise level; the economic incentives for prevention; the awareness-raising campaigns; information and technical assistance strategies; and the experiences of different national institutions: organisational models and selected best practices. The cost of participation, excluding international air travel, is EURO 3,250 (course fees EURO 1,570 and participant subsistence EURO 1,680) payable in advance by the participant or his or her sponsoring organisation. Please note that jointly with the application form, you must send a nomination letter in which the institution/sponsor should indicate how the candidate will be financed.
Applications: http://socialprotection.itcilo.org/forms/A906121
A total of four postdoctoral fellowships are available in the area of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) for the Collaboration for Health Systems and Policy Analysis and Innovation (CHESAI) project, which is based at the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town (UCT) and the School of Public Health, University of Western Cape (UWC), both in Cape Town, South Africa. The fellowships are for the period 2012-2016. Applicants must have citizenship of a sub-Saharan African country, be an expatriate African, or demonstrate commitment to future work in African health systems. They must have achieved a PhD in the last five years in any suitable field, such as health sciences or social sciences and not have previously held any permanent academic positions. Their work must show clear evidence of robust scholarly performance including a relevant publications record and have some relevant experience, specifically a track record of interest in health policy and systems issues, preferably including research. Applicants will be asked to propose an area of work relevant to one or more of the CHESAI themes, and to show how their past research provides a basis for this proposed work and/or what additional activities are proposed to contribute to the CHESAI community of practice. Please contact Jill Oliver and Thubelihle Mathole at the email address given.
The Social Aspects of HIV and AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA), established in 2001 by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), is an alliance of partners established to conduct, support and use social sciences research to prevent the further spread of HIV and mitigate the impact of its devastation in sub-Saharan Africa. The SAHARA 7 conference theme is "Translating evidence into action: Engaging with communities, policies, human rights, gender, service delivery".
The MPH at the University of the Western Cape aims to equip health professionals to: quantify and prioritise health needs; design, implement and evaluate Comprehensive Primary Health Care Programmes; and manage District Health Systems. The Programme is designed for a range of health and welfare professionals and managers from middle to senior level, at district, provincial or national levels, staff of NGO’s and academic research contexts. The Programme may be taken over two to three years. Admission requirements: A four year degree (Honours Degree) or its equivalent in any discipline, or in exceptional cases, five years of relevant experience assessed by the university through a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process. Contact Mrs Janine Kader at the email address given.
The next Global HSR Symposium will be held in Cape Town, 30 September-3 October 2014. The South African Local Organising Consortium (SA-LOC) consists of the Universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Western Cape as well as the Health Systems Trust and the SA Medical Research Council. The organisers are seeking to gather your views on African ideas and experiences to share in the Symposium. The Symposium theme is Health Systems Research: the science and practice of people-centred health systems. Kindly submit ideas on the Symposium and its theme via the open, global survey now available – go to the webpage address provided. In addition, if you have any specific thoughts about excellent African speakers and experiences of relevance to the theme, who/which might be considered for inclusion in the Symposium, or specific proposals for activities in and around the Symposium, please send an email to Funke Alaba at the email address given.
The Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is holding its first Rehabilitation Conference in September 2013. The conference will host speakers from diverse disciplinary fields on a range of themes such as: policy: influencing development and implementation; evidence for action: a research agenda; responsive rehabilitation service delivery; and optimising human resourcing for rehabilitation.
This conference will bring together researchers, activists, labour representatives, development practitioners and policy makers from around the world working to promote progressive public services, with an emphasis on health, water and electricity. It will showcase promising alternatives to private provision, as well as those which push forward our conceptual and methodological understandings of how public attitudes and practices arise, how they are constituted, and how they might be sustained. Papers can have a regional (Africa, Asia, Latin America) and/or sectoral focus (water, electricity, health) and should represent original work. All topics will be considered, as long as they meet the central conference theme of researching and promoting progressive public services.
The ICASA conference is held every year in sub-Saharan Africa and aims to contribute towards overcoming the HIV and TB epidemics that grip the region. The theme for 2013 is ‘Now more than Ever: Targeting Zero’. Abstracts may be according to one of several tracks: basic science; clinical science, treatment and care; epidemiology and prevention science; social science, human rights and political science; and health systems, implementation science and economics. ICASA 2013 will present a Young Investigator Award in each track. To be eligible, the presenting author of an abstract must be no older than 35 years of age on 7 December 2013. The Young Investigator Prize: Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS will be awarded to a young woman investigator from a resource-limited setting whose abstract most demonstrates excellence in research and/or practice that address women, girls and gender issues related to HIV and AIDS.