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Training Activities
In addition to providing technical assistance
to specific field projects, the UAB Coordinating Site of
the Gorgas
Tuberculosis Initiative (GTI) works to develop human
resources for international TB control. This is accomplished
in several ways:
- by providing training to staff and collaborators
of field projects, either in-country or through overseas
courses taught
by WHO, PAHO, IUATLD, etc.
- by providing training to health
professionals from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and
other developing countries through
the Sparkman Annual International Public Health Summer
Institute at UAB
- by providing training and mentoring to UAB
Coordinating Site staff, fellows (FSA/Muskie, Fulbright,
Fogarty, etc.)
and
student interns;
- through participation in the CDC-WHO Training
Collaborative for the Former Soviet Union;
- through participation
in distance-learning courses such as the “Training
of Tuberculosis Consultant Experts Program”,
a collaboration between University of Alberta at Edmonton
and IUATLD (summer 2003);
- by sponsoring workshops and symposia;
- through
the development, translation, printing and dissemination
of TB training materials.
Recent workshops and symposia sponsored
by the Gorgas TB Initiative at UAB:
“Workshop
on TB Control in Prisons”,
San Pedro Sula, Honduras, August 11-13, 2003. Co-sponsored
by the Pan American
Health Organization and implemented by GTI, PAHO, the Honduran
National TB Program and the Honduran Secretariat of Security.
“International TB Consultation: An Orientation and Interactive
Workshop for North American Providers”, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, June 9-13, 2003. Co-sponsored by USAID’s TB
Consortium for Technical Assistance and GTI, and implemented
by the North American Region of the IUATLD, the American
Thoracic Society, Pittsfield (MA) Anti-TB Association and
GTI.
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