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Dear colleagues,

the School of Public Health at Griffith University takes privilege to
announce the new course *Master of International Health*, which will
be offered from 1st semester 1999 (February 1999).

The course will address contemporary trends towards the globalization
of international aid programs.

The course is designed to produce graduates with the ability to
plan, implement, and evaluate international and national public
health programs. They will acquire the knowledge and skills to be able
to operate within the context of international development policies
and to utilise the resources of international organisations for the
purposes of national programs.

The course will examine current practice in the areas of planning,
implementation, and evaluation of public health programs in developing
countries in the context of international development programs of
international and national government and non-government
organisations.

The program aims at training professionals who work either in or
with international organisations particularly emphasising
intersectoral collaboration in the respective countries.

Whilst particular (but not exclusive) reference is made to the Asian
region, case studies will be drawn from many countries to provide
students with a truly global perspective.


Objectives

1. to enable students to analyse and develop health projects and
programs relevant to both domestic and international organisations
active in bi- and multi-lateral initiatives;

2. to enable students to comprehend and critically analyse mechanisms
of international cooperation;

3. to enable students to develop and apply strategies and methods of
cooperation between donor and recipient organisations;

4. to enable students to develop and implement planning strategies
relating to public health programs at a national level, in cooperation
with international donor agencies.

5. to enable students to analyse and develop health projects and
problems


Subjects

- Environment and Population Health: the subject provides an overview
of national and international demographic and environmental
developments and their impact on living conditions

- Primary Health Care - An International Perspective: the subject
provides in-depth analysis of primary health care policies and
projects of international and national organisations with particular
focus on developing countries

- Health Promotion - An International Perspective: the subject
analyses the development of health promotion concepts, strategies and
programs of the World Health Organisation and other UN-agencies and
links them to case studies from developing countries

- Indigenous Health: the subject researches the foundations of
indigenous health in various parts of the world and discusses the
meaning of indigenous health concepts in the context of the UN Decade
of Indigenous Peoples and the program activities of various
UN-agencies

- International Foreign Aid and Health Policy Formation: the subject
analyses the role of developmental policies of international and
national foreign aid agencies in the context of the development of
public health programs in developing countries

- Health Planning and Management: the subject provides skills and
methods of health planning and management in developing countries and
international and national foreign aid / development agencies

- Environmental Health Policies - An International Perspective: the
subject analyses international environmental policies and programs and
their impact on national program development and implementation in
developing countries with particular regard to intersectoral
collaboration with the public health sector

- Research Methods and Skills Development: ethnography and cultural
sensitivity - the subject provides skills and research methods of
particular relevance for the planning and implementation of health
programs in developing countries

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Further information is available with me.

Eberhard Wenzel MA PhD
Griffith University
School of Public Health
Deputy Director, Queensland Centre for Public Health
Nathan, Qld. 4111
Australia
Tel.: 61-7-3875 7103
Fax:  61-7-3875 6709
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