NIHES/ErasmusU Course on Tropical Disease Control

Jeffrey Shaw jshaw at tba.com.br
Wed Sep 24 22:13:18 BRT 1997


>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 97 23:57:45 +0100
>From: "Johan P VELEMA" <velema at mgz.fgg.eur.nl>
>To: tdr-scientists at who.ch
>Subject: NIHES/ErasmusU Course on Tropical Disease Control 
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>
>        QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR THE EVALUATION 
>                OF TROPICAL DISEASE CONTROL
>
>A course organized from 16 to 27 March 1998 
>by the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES)
>and the department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
>
>BACKGROUND
>Decision making on how money can be spent most effectively for the control 
>of tropical diseases should be supported by a systematic comparison of the 
>available control options. Mathematical, quantitative models are developed 
>to organize the available evidence in a coherent framework and permit 
>estimation of short term and long term effects.
>
>PROGRAMME
>=B7 The public health burden of disease in different parts of the 
>  world and ways to reduce it
>=B7 Different types of quantitative models for the evaluation of 
>  tropical disease control and their application
>=B7 Different measures of duration and quality of life and how to 
>  use each one appropriately
>=B7 Interpretation of the information generated by mathematical 
>  models, including an understanding of their limitations
>=B7 Ways in which interventions can affect disease transmission
>  and disease occur-rence both on the short term and on the long term
>=B7 Measuring the costs incurred by the individual and the 
>  community as a consequence of disease
>=B7 Modelling approaches for specific diseases such as Leprosy, 
>  Schistosomiasis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Lymfatic 
>  Filariasis.
>=B7 Students will learn to work with the user-friendly software
>  ONCHOSIM, a computer simulation programme -for the 
>  transmission and control of Onchocerciasis.
>
>TARGET GROUP 
>This course is designed for those who are involved in the planning, 
>management or evaluation of tropical disease control programmes and those 
>who do research in this area, whether in their own country or in an 
>international context, and who are interested in the systematic reasoning 
>which the use of disease control models stimulates. For students wishing to 
>develop mathematical models themselves, this course should be considered as
>a first introduction to the subject. Participants are assumed to be 
>familiar with basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics. A general 
>familiarity with computers is an advantage.
>
> FACULTY
> Prof. Dik Habbema, Drs. Willem-Jan Meerding, Drs. Bram Meima, Dr. Gerrit
>van Oortmarssen, Dr. Anton Plaisier, Dr. Johan Velema (course 
>co-ordinator), Dr. Sake de Vlas and Drs. Carina van Vliet, who are all 
>staff members of the Center for Decision Sciences for Tropical Disease 
>Control, department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 
>addition, guest lecturers from other institutions will contribute to the 
>course.
>
>FURTHER INFORMATION 
>For more information please visit our website: 
>
>        http://www.eur.nl/fgg/nihes 
>
>or contact: The Admissions Co-ordinator, the Netherlands Institute for 
>Health Sciences, Erasmus University Medical School, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR 
>Rotterdam, The Netherlands.    Phone: + 31 10 408 82 88, Fax: + 31 10 436 
>59 33, e-mail: NIHES at nihes.fgg.eur.nl
>
>Dr. Johan P. Velema
>dept. Public Health
>Erasmus University Rotterdam
>
>Tel: +31-10-4087714
>Fax: +31-10-4366831
>Mailto:velema at mgz.fgg.eur.nl
>
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