Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp Short Courses 2020

Short courses on offer

• Molecular Data for Infectious Diseases (MID)
• Health Economics & Financing for Universal Health Coverage (HEF)
• Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Control and Elimination (MALNTD)
• Ending Tuberculosis (TB)
• Health Policy and Governance (HPG)
• Multivariable Analysis (MVA)
• Social Protection in Health for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
• Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD)
• Globalisation & Health (GH)
• HIV & STI Response (HIVSTI)
• Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH)
• Outbreak Investigations and Research (OIR)

Molecular Data for Infectious Diseases (MID)

MID trains professional molecular biologists for the implementation of molecular techniques in support of clinical and epidemiological field studies on infectious diseases in tropical low-resource settings. Pathogen identity, dynamics, and transmission often form an integral part of such studies, phenomena that can be documented using DNA and RNA techniques. Despite rapid advancements in molecular methods, their implementation in low-resource environments often remains cumbersome due to logistic, financial, and educational constraints. MID focuses on appropriate assays selection and analysis, and on their implementation in a particular research setting.

• Course dates
  • E-learning: 16 November – 11 December 2020
  • Face-to-face: 29 March – 16 April 2021
• Application deadline: 30 September 2020
• Credits: 5 ECTS

Health Economics & Financing for Universal Health Coverage (HEF)

HEF targets health professionals, policy makers and researchers involved in health policy development and health financing reform strategies. It aims to equip health professionals with economic and financing strategies to strengthen health systems in low- and middle-income countries. The course examines the features of healthcare as both a commodity and a right. Participants will be encouraged to apply and critically review the tools and frameworks provided, in order to make progress towards universal health coverage.

• Course dates: 4 – 22 January 2021
• Application deadline: 15 October 2020
• Credits: 5 ECTS

Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Control and Elimination (MALNTD)
 
This three-week course is aimed at programme managers, decision-makers, clinicians and researchers involved in malaria or neglected tropical diseases (NTD) control and elimination, or related programmes. During this multidisciplinary course, we examine important technical, managerial and social challenges related to control and elimination initiatives of malaria and NTDs. In case studies, the course participants will apply frameworks and tools for the formulation, management and evaluation of malaria and NTD interventions to their own contexts.

• Course dates: 4 – 22 January 2021
• Application deadline: 15 October 2020
• Credits: 5 ECTS

Ending Tuberculosis (TB)
 
This three-week course is mainly targeted at programme managers, decision-makers, clinicians and researchers involved in or collaborating with TB control programmes in low-resource settings. The course will focus on evidence-based formulation of a TB control policy, implementation challenges in various epidemiological contexts and resource-constrained settings. Particular attention is given to monitoring & evaluation of TB programmes and to operational research.

• Course dates: 25 January 2021 – 12 February 2021
• Application deadline: 15 October 2020
• Credits: 5 ECTS

Health Policy and Governance (HPG)
 
This three-week course is relevant for health policy makers, health system managers, programme managers and researchers involved in health policy processes and governance at decentralised, national and global levels, both in- and outside the health sector. The course will enhance students’ capacity to engage in a policy dialogue with relevant actors and to develop policy change scenarios in order to strengthen health systems and achieve universal health coverage.

• Course dates: 25 January – 12 February 2021
• Application deadline: 15 October 2020
• Credits: 5 ECTS

Multivariable Analysis (MVA)
 
This three-week course is relevant for master’s and PhD students who plan to use multivariable analysis methods in their research/thesis projects and/or who plan to use epidemiological literature in a critical way.  The aim of this course is to enable participants to appraise and apply three types of multivariable analysis, i.e. linear, logistic, and Cox regression, in the domain of public health research.

• Course dates: 25 January – 12 February 2021
• Application deadline: 15 October 2020
• Credits: 5 ECTS

Social Protection in Health for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)

This three-week course is intended for health system and programme managers, health policy makers and researchers and aims to develop a framework for the analysis of policies on universal health coverage, with special attention to social protection in health. The analytical framework integrates institutional, financial, human, and socio-political dimensions. The course combines participatory classroom teaching, field visits and interaction with stakeholders in the domain of SPH/UHC, and critical discussion of selected country-cases.

• Course dates: 8 – 26 March 2021
• Application deadline: 1 December 2020
• Credits: 5 ECTS

Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD)