Diploma (HCMTC)
Accredited by TropEd, this course is part of the joint European programme Master of Advanced Studies in International Health (MAS) and one of the mandatory core course in the programme. The core course is followed by a series of optional modules (e.g. the advanced courses at STI). Some modules are also counting for the MPH of Swiss universities.The transfer of credits for courses taken in different places is regulated by the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).

The focus of the course has shifted from curative tropical medicine towards a broad view of health and development at district level. The course aims at introducing the range of skills and knowledge needed to work as a member of a District Health Management Team. Topics covered include a wide range of subjects ranging from basic parasitology, epidemiology and health care in tropical diseases to management skills. Throughout, there is a strong emphasis on a community approach and on the development of skills needed for communication, teaching and training.

Content:

• Concepts and research methods (methodology, epidemiology, statistics, social science concepts)(3 - 5 weeks)
• Health Problems (major endemic diseases, child hood / nutrition, reproductive health, adult health / violence, environmental health, health in transition) (3 - 5 weeks)
  Essential laboratory and parasitology
• Health system management and communication (health policy/planning, health economics, health promotion, management)(3 - 5 weeks)

Within the Master of Advanced Studies in International Health (MIH) curriculum of TropEd candidates will receive 3,0 credit points for this Advanced Course.

To enable health professionals to understand and apply the concepts and principles of essential medicines and rational medicine management with a focus on the diseases of poverty HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis, to recognise the need for a national and international medicine policy
environment, to improve knowledge and skills and to gain practical field experience for rational medicine management within different health system contexts.

Course topics:

• Historic milestones and current global medicine situation in different health care
  systems
• Concept of essential medicines and its relevance in primary health care
• Concept and principles of rational medicine management in pluralistic and reforming
  health systems
• Roles of different stakeholders including health workers, traditional healers, research
  organisations and the pharmaceutical industry
• The international context, global treaties and national medicine policy
• Treatment guidelines, essential medicine lists and personal medicine lists
• Patterns of medicine use, strategies for the promotion of rational medicine use, community medicine use
• Antimicrobial resistance and approaches for containment Medicine quality and quality assurance
• Rational management of HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis related treatment within their respective global initiatives
• Framework and components of a medicine supply system including procurement and distribution
• Elements of medicine costs, affordability and financing options
• Critical medicine information management

The total course fee is CHF 2300.- (Swiss Francs) including tuition, accommodation/full board and must be paid 8 weeks before the start of the course. This sum includes the registration fee (CHF 100.-) which is due at the moment of acceptance. If a participant does not attend the course, the registration fee cannot be reimbursed. If cancellation is less than 4 weeks before beginning of the course an additional fee of CHF 500.- will be charged. Cost for international flights must be added.

STI, Basel, Switzerland
Ifakara, Tanzania, http://www.healthtrainingifakara.org/

This module provides information and tools on planning district health services. A major part of the course is a realistic simulation of the project design process. Participants will take the roles of a project design mission and will complete a full design document.

At the end of the module students will be able to:

- to work with concepts of priority setting, economics and planning regarding the development of health systems
- to put into practice principles of management that can be applied to district health services, - - using the Health Resources Allocation Model by the Swiss Tropical Institute
- to design a health programme and prepare a project proposal.

This module is open to participants with a STI diploma "Health Care and Management in Tropical Countries (HCMTC)" or an equivalent degree, but it is also designed as a course for
professionals working in the field of planning and programme design. In addition it is an optional module within the joint Master Curriculum in International Health (MIH) of tropEd, a collaborative network of 33 institutes of higher education in 13 European and 3 overseas countries.
Good mastery of the English language.

STI, Basel, Switzerland

The course is a simulation exercise applying the latest tools assessing population health needs, establishing district intervention priorities, and allocation district health resources in a context of limited funding. Participants take the roles of district health planning team members and will:

• Define efficacy-adjusted, intervention addressable, burdens of disease for a case study district population and health system
• Establishing intervention priorities by weighing this evidence against other information available from the local health information system and national guidelines.
• Determine current constrains and bottlenecks to equity-effectiveness (coverage ) of these interventions.
• Apply computer-based applications to allocate an optimal mix of resources to incrementally scale-up coverage ot these interventions.
• Link these investments to national development and poverty reduction goals.
• Prepare a complete District health Plan and budget that responds to population need, health system realtities and resources, and contemporary evidence on effectiveness of interventions.
• Present and defend the District Health Plan to both: a) a lay Board; and b) Goverment authorities.

This module is open to participants with a STI diploma "Health Care and Management in Tropical Countries (HCMTC)" or an equivalent degree, but it is also designed as a course for
professionals working in the field of planning and programme design. In addition it is an optional module within the joint Master Curriculum in International Health (MIH) of tropEd, a collaborative network of 33 institutes of higher education in 13 European and 3 overseas countries.
Good mastery of the English language.

The course aims to teach clinical medicine inside health facilities of tropical countries. It cominbes new teaching methods, recent scientific knowledge, and medical practice with limited resources, into a novel form of education for medical professionals working at district level in a developing country.

HIV/AIDS is a major health problem in countries of the South. Major initiatives are currently under way to tackle this dramatic epidemic. Based on the experience gained in a rural district, one academic week of this course is reserved to cover the wide range of technical and practical issues with regard to the management of HIV/AIDS patients in a peripheral setting of Sub-Saharan Africa.

The course fee is CHF 3.900.- (Swiss francs) and must be paid in advance. This sum includes the registration fee (DHF 100.-) which is due at the moment of acceptance, the tuition fee and travel within Tanzania as well as accomodation and full board during the time of the course.

Please contact the Course-Secretariat, Swiss Tropical Institute, P.O. Box, CH - 4002 Basel, Switzerland,
Tel: +41 (0)61 284 82 80,
Fax: +41 (0)61 284 81 06,
Email: courses-sti@unibas.ch
Internet: Click here
Informations on the partner institute, the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre can be obtained at http://www.healthtrainingifakara.org/

Kursdaten 2009:
1. Teil "Grundmodul": 14. September - 9. Oktober 2009
2. Teil "Biomedizinisches Modul": 12. Oktober - 6. November 2009
Kursdaten 2010:
1. Teil "Grundmodul" 20. September - 15. Oktober 2010
2. Teil "Biomedizinisches Modul" 18. Oktober - 12. November 2010
Kursdaten 2011:
1. Teil "Grundmodul" 19. September - 14. Oktober 2011
2. Teil "Biomedizinisches Modul" 17. Oktober - 11. November 2011

Schweizerisches Tropeninstitut
Kurssekretariat
Postfach
CH - 4002 Basel
Tel: +41 (0)61 284 82 80
Fax: +41 (0)61 284 81 06
E-mail: courses-sti@unibas.ch
Internet: http://www.sti.ch/de/lehre-und-ausbildung/allgemeiner-tropenkurs.html
or http://www.sti.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Pdfs/tnt/FPH2008.pdf

The certificate course "Travellers' Health" aims at preparing the participants to provide relevant information for travellers and to assess travel-related problems occurring during travel and after their return with a special focus on tropical diseases. The general objectives are to provide up-to-date information in travel medicine with regard to:

• Preventive pre-travel advice including immunizations and other aspects during travel
• Appropriate risk assessment and behaviour during travel
• Management of travel-related diseases based on individual and epidemiological features

26 - 30 January 2009

Registration for the next Preparatory Course from 23 - 25 January 2009: Apply here

The course consists of three parts:

• Pre-travel advice: Goals of travel medicine, vaccinations, malaria prophylaxis, special risk groups, standardization of travel advice, information tools, communicating information
• Health problems abroad: Common health problems during travel.
• The returning traveller: Differential diagnosis of travel related diseases (fever, diarrhoea, skin disorders, eosinophilia), management of imported diseases.

Swiss Tropical Institute, Course Secretariat, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basel/Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)61 284 82 80,
Fax: +41 (0)61 284 81 06,
E-mail: courses-sti@unibas.ch
Internet: http://www.sti.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Pdfs/tnt/thc_2009.pdf

In the past year there has been a rapid increase in interest and application of cash transfers and other incentives intended to strengthen health systems in developing and transition countries. The Swiss Tropical Institute (STI) is organizing its 12th Symposium assembling researchers as well as policy and decision makers interested in international health to examine this experience. Specifically, the Symposium aims to have an in-depth look at current experiences and knowledge on supply and demand side incentive mechanisms to increase the quality and coverage of the population with health services and priority home –based interventions.

The symposium will allow participants to learn form recent experiences in countries of sub Saharan Africa and elsewhere and to get acquainted with the potential of incentive-based interventions and the role of research.

27 - 28 November 2008

Swiss Tropical Institute, Course Secretariat, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basel/Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)61 284 83 11
Fax: +41 (0)61 284 81 03
E-mail: scih-sti@unibas.ch
Internet: Click here

Malaria: Der direkte Nachweis der Malariaerreger im Blut ist, trotz moderner molekularer Diagnostikverfahren, immer noch die Referenzmethode der Malariadiagnostik. Neben bio-logischen, epidemiologischen und klinischen Aspekten ist darum der Hauptteil des Kurses der Differen-tialdiagnose der Plasmodien gewidmet. Eine Blinddiagnose am Schluss des Kurses ermöglicht die Selbstevaluation des Lernerfolges.

Diagnostic du paludisme: La mise en évidence des plasmodies dans le sang reste la procédure diagnostique de référence même en présence de tests de biologie moléculaire modernes.
Lors de ce module, les aspects biologiques, épidémio-logiques, et cliniques ainsi que des méthodes diagnostiques sont enseignés. Une grande partie du cours est consacrée au diagnostic différentiel au microscope des quatre espèces plasmodiales. Un test pratique d’auto-évaluation est proposé en fin de journée.

Tageskurse / Cours d’un jour: 9.15 – 17.00 Uhr

• Malariadiagnostik (12. Februar und 28. Mai 2009)
• Paludisme : 23 avril 2009

Tageskurse: 12. Februar 2009, 23. April 2009, 28. Mai 2009

• Biomedizinische AnalytikerInnen / Techniciens
• ÄrztInnen / Médecins
• BiologInnen / Biologistes
• LaborleiterInnen / Responsables de laboratoires médicaux

Die Malariakurse sind von der Höheren Fach- und Führungsausbildung als Weiterbildungsveranstaltungen für biomedizinische AnalytikerInnen anerkannt.

Kurssekretariat
Schweizerisches Tropeninstitut
Socinstrasse 57
Postfach
4002 Basel
Tel: +41 (0)61 284 82 80
Fax: +41 (0)61 284 81 06
E-mail: courses-sti@unibas.ch
Internet: Click here or Programm 2009

Dieses Modul soll den Teilnehmenden erste Einblicke in das strategische Projektmanagement bieten. Mit verschiedenen Tools und Planungshilfen (Project Cycle Management, Logical Framework Approach) vereinfacht sich der Prozess von der Problemdefinition über die Zielfindung bis hin zur konkreten Planung einzelner Aktivitäten. Thematisiert werden ebenfalls die Prinzipien und Implementationsschritte des Projektmonitorings und der Projektevaluation.

Nach erfolgreicher Beendigung des Moduls
— kennen die Teilnehmenden die Grundlagen und Begriffe des Project Cycle Management und dessen Bedeutung für das strategische Management von Projekten
— sind die Teilnehmenden in der Lage, ein ausgewähltes Gesundheitsproblem und die möglichen zugrunde liegenden Faktoren in ihrer Bedeutung für die Projektplanung zu analysieren
— kennen die Teilnehmenden die Systematik des Logical Framework Approach und können mit diesem Tool eine Projektplanungsskizze erarbeiten.

Inhalte:
— Theoretische Einführung in das strategische Projektmanagement und das Project Cycle Management
— Problemdefinition mit einer Problem-Tree-Analyse
— Planung eines Forschungs- oder Interventionsprogramms
— Präsentation der ausgearbeiteten Projektplanungsskizzen im Plenum.

Zielpublikum, Zulassung

• Basismodul im alten Curriculum für Studierende des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Public Health
• Teilnehmende mit Projekterfahrung profitieren am meisten von diesem Kurs
• Voraussetzung ist ein Basiswissen hinsichtlich Public-Health-Interventionsstrategien sowie Kenntnisse des schweizerischen Gesundheitssystems

Kurssekretariat
Schweizerisches Tropeninstitut
Socinstrasse 57
Postfach
4002 Basel
Tel: +41 (0)61 284 82 80
Fax: +41 (0)61 284 81 06
E-mail: courses-sti@unibas.ch
Internet: Click here