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Building public health capacity through short courses: a new guide

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In 1992, the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa conducted its first public health Winter School. Drawing on 26 years of experience with running these annual short course programmes, we just launched a publication that aims to share insights and provide guidance for institutions interested in or already running similar continuing education short course programmes in public health or related areas.

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Reference Materials

Report: Strengthening health policy and systems courses to support health leadership and management development

This report covers a joint RESYST-CHEPSAA workshop that was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 4-6 April 2018. It provides a record of the meeting, which can be useful to others who are thinking about developing their courses to make them more relevant to leaders and managers. It also contains other resources such as useful readings about leadership and management, and descriptions of some of the more interesting facilitation techniques used during the meeting.

Adaptations to Introduction to Health Policy and Systems Research module

Adaptations to CHEPSAA's course Introduction to Health Policy and Systems Research, plus the associated teaching materials. Based on a short course by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and West China Research Centre for Rural Health Development.

Promoting equitable access to health care for households

The case studies present participants with an equity ‘lens’ through which to view the challenges of promoting health system access, focussing attention on households’ experience of illness and health service access with facilitator notes.