- To position the prevention and control of NCDs in the actual global, regional and national context;
- To understand the applicability of policy tools for the prevention and control of chronic non communicable diseases;
- To become familiar with successful surveillance systems and methodologies in the Americas;
- To understand the applicability of policy tools for the prevention and control of chronic non communicable diseases;
- To understand social marketing and its applicability to public health problems and behavior change;
- To understand the Chronic Care Model and be able to apply the components to intervention development
- Identify the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of influenza, focusing on influenza A(H1N1);
- Recognize and implement critical aspects of health services preparedness;
- Identify priority actions for preventing transmission and caring for cases of pandemic influenza;
- Know the different protective measures for health care workers and the public;
- Analyze information on the behavior and management of the epidemic;
- Provide a source of recent news and developments on the epidemics behavior.