- Describe the characteristics of influenza viruses, and the disease they cause - List the objectives of public health surveillance and influenza surveillance - Review the common types of surveillance and the types used for influenza surveillance - Understand the need to intensify SARI surveillance - Discuss how influenza surveillance data are used - Understand the case definition for severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) and the principle etiologic agents of SARI - Compare SARI case definition to that of influenza-like illness (ILI) - Understand the methods used to identify SARI cases, types of clinical samples to collect and what data are to be reported - Describe the surveillance steps from case identification to collection of epidemiologic information - Organize, compile and assess the data collected - Understand the uses of absolute and relative measures - Describe the seven key SARI indicators - Interpret the recommended outputs for SARI indicators - Construct tables and graphs to illustrate proportions and distributions - Interpret tables and figures to analyze trends - Understand the roles and responsibilities for intensified national SARI surveillance - Describe the information flow related to intensified national SARI surveillance

- Describe the characteristics of influenza viruses, and the disease they cause - List the objectives of public health surveillance - Explain why laboratory data are important for influenza surveillance - Interpret measures used to determine the burden of disease - Understand frequency measures used in statistical reporting for influenza surveillance - Understand the uses of absolute and relative measures - Identify the five key measures to include in an influenza weekly report - List the characteristics of well-constructed tables and graphs - Display in graphical and tabular format, weekly data - List the key characteristics of oral and written presentations

- 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

- Describe and analyze the issue of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke at the global and regional level; - Disseminate tobacco control measures contained in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; - Analyze the factors that influence smoking uptake and persistence among young people; - Describe the strategies and characteristics of smoking cessation, at the individual and population level; - Describe the tobacco industry’s opposition strategies and provide tools for analyzing and responding to industry actions; - Present the most successful interventions and their implementation in the Region of the Americas; - Integrate knowledge about challenges and trends to comprehensive tobacco control.

- Describe and analyze the issue of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke at the global and regional level; - Disseminate information about tobacco control measures contained in the WHO FCTC; - Analyze the factors that influence smoking uptake and persistence among young people; - Describe the strategies and characteristics of smoking cessation, at the individual and population level; - Describe the tobacco industry's opposition strategies and provide tools for analyzing and responding to industry actions; - Present the most sucessful interventions and their implementation in the Region of the Americas; - Integrate knowledge about challenges and trends related to comprehensive tobacco control.

- Explain the concept of second-hand smoke; - Describe the available scientific evidence on the harmful health effects of second-hand smoke; - Define the characteristics and advantages of 100% smoke-free environments; - Learn to recognize the tobacco industry's efforts to halt initiatives that seek to creat 100% smoke-free environments; - Share ideas in order to neutralize the strategies of the tobacco industry; - Explore new ways of devising initiatives to create 100% smoke-free environments; - Analyze problematic situations; - Discuss new trends in protection from exposure to second-hand smoke.