HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS: TRAIN-THE-TRAINERS COURSE Co-Convenors: Leslie London and Gonda Perez (UCT Public Health and Primary Health Care Department), Karrisha Pillay (advocate at the bar) and Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven (Trinity College, Hartford, USA) Training in human rights for health professionals has increasingly been identified as a critical need for the health sector. This is particularly the case in light of the findings of the Truth Commission that highlighted the role played by training institutions in human rights abuses under apartheid. The course is aimed at teaching staff in institutions training health professionals -Universities, Technicons, Nursing Colleges and other Training Facilities. Participants should ideally be teachers active in undergraduate or postgraduate teaching in a position to introduce or facilitate ongoing sustainability of training initiatives beyond the course. Dates: 18th to 22nd July 2005 Venue: Conference Room 4, Barnard Fuller Building, University of Cape Town Health Sciences Faculty, Anzio Rd, Observatory, 7925 The aim of the course is to: - enable participants to understand the conceptual framework for human rights, its relationship to health, the historical context and national and international human rights debates relating health and human rights. - Promote understanding of professional and ethical codes to support human rights - Explore the past and future roles of institutions in the health sector with regard to human rights - Recognise the importance of self-study, reflection on the past to plan for the future - Explore strategies for curriculum change, including multidisiplinary teaching, identifying clinical settings in which human rights abuses take place, and exploring the relationship between ethics and human rights - Identify core and discipline-specific competencies in human rights - Share resources available (electronic and other) The course draws on 7 years of previous experience of running similar courses at UWC Winter School in Public Health, and at UCT since 1998. With this course we aim to maintain a network of human rights teachers beyond the life of the course, through ongoing communication and support. The course fees are R 2000. CPD points will be provided for health professionals requiring CPD, including ethics points. For further information or registration details, please contact Ms Sue MacHutchon at the Department of Public Health, University of Cape Town. Phone 021 406 6608, Fax 021 447 1569, email suemac@cormack.uct.ac.za