- Increase knowledge and awareness of how outcomes in health are related to sex, gender norms, roles, relations and other determinants of health. - Initiate the building of core analytical skills for gender analysis and its application in a public health context. - Understand how the health sector can use gender analysis tools to effectively reduce health inequities.

This course will help you:
- In assessing whether the introduction of pneumococcal vaccine into the immunization program is cost-effective and feasible; - In designing and implementing a vaccine introduction plan when the evidence supports the introduction; - In monitoring the implementation and evaluating the impact after introducing the vaccine.

- Define the terms “pandemic” and “preparedness.”; - Describe how pandemic influenza emerges and spreads; - Describe key steps in developing a local preparedness and response plan; - Describe principles of effective communication during a pandemic; - Identify preparedness and response strategies for specific community sectors; - Identify additional resources to support local preparedness and response efforts.

Through this course, the Gender, Ethnicity and Health Office of PAHO/WHO seeks to promote an analysis of the health situation and access to services with proper attention given to differences in health indicators that reveal unfavorable circumstances faced by indigenous people, Afro-descendants, Romani people and migrants. Adopting an ethnic approach will create opportunities to redesign health program, plans and policies, with the aim to overcome unjust social conditions that affect those people within a framework that promote: social equity, social participation and respect for human rights.