The following six modules make up the full Provision of Health Care to People Experiencing Homelessness Programme. You can choose to take as many or as few as you like. If you choose to take part in all six modules, you will be eligible for a Postgraduate Certificate in the Provision of Health Care to People Experiencing Homelessness which qualifies you for equivalent to 60 CATS points at Masters Level.

The course aims to:

• Raise awareness of the health needs of homeless people.
• Develop an understanding of the causes and consequences of being homeless.
• Encourage and enable work across disciplines to optimise provision of health care to the homeless population through the medium of inter-professional education.
• Provide the foundation for the development of enhanced services for homeless people through interprofessional learning.

Module 1: Key Concepts in Health Care for People Experiencing Homelessness
Module 2: Homelessness: Exclusion from health care and from society
Modul 3: Healthcare needs of people experiencing homelessness
Modul 4: Organising healthcare provision for homeless people
Module 5: Working with homeless people who have complex and multiple needs
Module 6: Seminar on Health Care Provision for People Experiencing Homelessness

By the end of the course, participants should have:

• A knowledge of the current literature on the causes and consequences of homelessness.
• Understand proven methods for addressing homelessness.
• Understand how the provision of health care fits into the wider picture of addressing homelessness and social exclusion.
• The skills required to work with other disciplines to provide health care to people experiencing homelessness.
• The skills to maintain a sustainable work environment in which to provide health care to homeless people.
• The ability to communicate their knowledge to colleagues in the field and other relevant groups.
• The learning skills to continue independent and collaborative acquisition of skills and knowledge.
• The skills to share their knowledge and skills with their co-workers and community.

October 2009

Health Sciences
Continuing Professional Development Centre
University of Oxford
Littlegate House
16/17 St Ebbes Street
Oxford OX1 1PT
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 286 941
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 286 934
Email: cpdhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
Internet: http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/healthsciences/courses/homeless/pgcert.asp

Worldwide, two thirds of the deaths in children under five years of age are caused by infectious diseases, and the prevention and treatment of infections in children is the number one priority for global health. Reflecting this imperative, we recognize that investment in research and intervention programmes related to leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality, including acute respiratory infections, measles, infectious diarrhoea, malaria, HIV, and TB is at an unprecedented level.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases is a part-time two-year programme covering:

• Classification of infective agents and basic microbiological characteristics.
• Function of the specific and non-specific immune systems.
• Pathogenesis of infection and infectious injury.
• Epidemiology of infectious diseases both nationally and globally.
• Therapeutics in infection and immunodeficiency.
• Infection control.
• Immunizations.
• Diagnosis and management of the more common infections in infants and children.
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Paediatric Infectious Diseases Programme
Continuing Professional Development Centre
University of Oxford
Littlegate House
16/17 St Ebbes Street
Oxford OX1 1PT
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 286 941
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 286 934
Email: cpdhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
Internet: http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/pid/default.asp or Click here for PDF

1. Handling and describing data, learning to use your calculator
2. Probability and random variables
3. Exploratory data analysis
4. Sampling distributions and statistical inference
5. Hypothesis testing
6. Analysis of variance
7. Linear model and regression
8. Statistics applied to cohort studies
9. Statistics applied to case control studies
10. Statistics applied to randomised controlled trials

• have experience in a health or social care related field
• have either studied mathematics to AS level or obtained equivalent work based exposure to mathematics
• speak sufficiently fluent in English

This course is divided into 10 units. Each unit covers a different aspect of statistics and statistical modelling. Individual units are built around practical exercises and realistic case studies that will enable students to apply statistical knowledge in a health context.
Weekly study for each unit is self-paced using online resources. Movement through the units is structured week by week to enable students to complete sections at the same time as the rest of their course group.

Individual activities can involve reading of related text book chapters and articles, working through problems or analysing example datasets. The group activities will mainly involve online discussions of important issues in statistics so that students can put the application of statistics into an everyday context. Discussions occur weekly, but are "asynchronous" due to possible local time differences between the student's locations.

£1500 (discounted rate of £1000 if you register at least 1 month in advance of the course start date)
Fees include full course materials and online IT support.

In recent years, the bringing together of evidence from randomised trials into systematic reviews has become increasingly common, not least because of the formation of the Cochrane Collaboration with its aim to prepare, maintain and promote the accessibility of reviews in all areas of health care. Systematic reviews are also of increasing importance when considering other study designs. In fact, they are becoming a vital part of not only the process of summarising existing research but also of the process of planning future research.

This course will take the participants through the process of doing a systematic review and will focus on the practicalities rather than the theory. It will consider the practical aspects of

• question formulation
• study identification
• appraisal of quality
• data extraction and collection
• statistical synthesis
• reporting

The course will take place on five separate full days. Each participant will be encouraged to identify a topic for a systematic review that they would like to discuss in detail during the course.

• be a graduate or have successfully completed a professional training course
• have experience in a health related field
• be able to bring to the proposed course specific work-based health problems
• be able to combine intensive classroom learning with the application of the principles and practices within the work place
• speak sufficiently fluent in English

Chen, Phoebe
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 286 947
Email: cpdhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
Internet: http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/ebhc/courses/SR/default.asp

The aim of this module is to develop students' core knowledge and skills in applied clinical epidemiology through exploring how research evidence can be used to inform practice and how epidemiological information can be applied to both individual patient and health policy decisions. The module will be led by Dr Amanda Burls who is Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford.

By the end of this section students will be able to:

• assess the overall quality of a research paper or report concerned with:
  - defining the magnitude of a health problem
  - evaluating the effect of a health intervention
  - causal inference (including the Bradford-Hill criteria)
• understand strategies for handling and adjusting for bias (selection, measurement and confounding)
• distinguish which of the methodological flaws in any paper are the most important and their implications for decision making

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 286 947
Email: cpdhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
Internet: http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/ebhc/courses/clinical/default.asp

By the end of the MSc year, students should be able to:

• demonstrate an awareness of a range of research approaches
• identify sources of up-to-date, specialist knowledge in your field of interest
• use appropriate methods to design and conduct a health research project
• produce a dissertation which clearly sets out the need for their research, justifies the research methods, presents results, and discusses the implications of findings in terms of health care practice

Compulsory Modules

• The Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care
• Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods

The following modules are on offered:

• Clinical Epidemiology and Decision Making (Evidence in Practice)
• Ethics in Health Care
• Evidence-Based Change
• Evidence-Based Dentistry
• Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Screening
• Further Practical Statistics
• Patient-Based Evidence
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Randomized Controlled Trials
• Statistics for Health Researchers (online)
• Systematic Reviews
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• those already involved in undertaking health research
• those in nursing and professions allied to medicine
• primary and secondary care clinicians
• health service managers
• clinical effectiveness co-ordinators
• many other health professions

• be a graduate or have successfully completed a professional training course
• have professional work experience in the health service
• be able to bring to the course a specific work-based health problem for which you will be seeking evidence
• be able to combine intensive classroom learning with the application of the principles and practices of evidence-based health care within the work place

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 286 941
Email: cpdhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
Internet: http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/ebhc/msc.asp

The Global Health Summer School will aid in developing appropriate skills in relation to participants’ work in global and public health and to help participants understand how research evidence, ethical frameworks and programme evaluation can impact on and be used in global and public health.

The Summer School consists of three units spread over five days, with participants attending all three units. Each day will begin with a key plenary session on a global health topic, following which participants will cover each of the following:

• Research Methods – Introduction to Epidemiological Studies, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
• Designing and Evaluating Public Health Programmes
• Ethics for Global Health
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Objectives

• To provide participants with an overall introduction to the topic of Global Health Science
• To aid in developing appropriate skills in relation to participants' work in global and public health
• To help participants understand how research evidence, ethical frameworks and programme evaluation can impact on and be used in global and public health

5–9 July 2010

University of Oxford Global Health Summer School 2009
Continuing Professional Development
University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
Littlegate House
16/17 St Ebbes Street
Oxford OX1 1PT
Tel: +44 (0)1865 286 950/45
Fax: +44 (0)1865 286 934
Email: Globalhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
Internet: http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/globalhealth/default.asp

The course aims to promote advanced study of the challenges of global health and their potential solutions by in-depth study of a range of scientific disciplines, so that students may understand and integrate medical, epidemiological, social and economic aspects of ill-health in developing countries.
Our course offers students the opportunity to learn from some of the world's leading figures in global health. For example: Professor Harold Jaffe, previously Director of the National Center for HIV, STD and TB prevention at the CDC, is now Head of the Department of Public Health and chair of the MSc Organising Committee.

The course will aim to develop students’:

• knowledge of the major global health problems and their potential solutions
• knowledge and skills in techniques of analysis of global health problems, particularly principles of epidemiology and statistics, health policy and public health, and international development with opportunities for training in additional specialist fields
• capacity to critically appraise evidence in global health
• skills and practical experience in researching specific health problems

Academic Content:
The four compulsory modules comprise:
* Challenges in Global Health
* Health Policy and Public Health
* Principles of Epidemiology
* Statistical Concepts for Global Health

Optional Modules: Students have to decide early in the course (beginning of the first term) which two optional modules they wish to study for during the second term. The seven choices are as follows:
* Tropical Medicine
* Vaccinology
* Health Economics
* International Development & Health
* Maternal and Child Health
* Healthcare Management
* International Research Ethics

October 2010

University of Oxford Global Health Summer School 2009
Continuing Professional Development
University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
Littlegate House
16/17 St Ebbes Street
Oxford OX1 1PT
Tel: +44 (0)1865 286 950/45
Fax: +44 (0)1865 286 934
Email: Globalhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.publichealth.ox.ac.uk/gradstu/globalhealth

By the end of the MSc programme, students will be able to understand the following core principles:

• How drugs are developed and marketed
• The important aspects of drug regulation
• The pharmaceutical factors that affect drug therapy
• Pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism
• Pharmacogenetics
• Pharmacodynamics (pharmacological actions of drugs) and the principles of pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic modelling
• Adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, and pharmacovigilance
• How to design phase I, II and III clinical trials for a range of novel therapeutic interventions (and imaging agents)
• Application of statistics to medicine
• Laboratory assays used to support trial end-points
• Use of non-invasive imaging in drug development

Compulsory modules:

• The Structure of Clinical Trials and Experimental Therapeutics
• The Basic Processes of Drug Therapy: Pharmacokinetics
• The Basic Processes of Drug Therapy: Pharmacodynamics and the Principles of Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modelling
• Adverse Drug Reactions, Drug Interactions, and Pharmacovigilance
• How to do Research on Therapeutic Interventions: Protocol Preparation

Biological Therapeutics Elective modules

• The Principles of Cancer Chemotherapy
• Structural Genomics and Drug Discovery
• Rational Prescribing

October 2010

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 286 955
Email: expther@conted.ox.ac.uk
Internet: http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/expther/default.asp