- Recognize the main types of rotavirus vaccines;
- Understand the history of rotavirus vaccines and intussusception;
- Estimate the potential impact of rotavirus vaccine introduction in your country.
- Understand the different methods for evaluating the economics of health interventions, such as introducing a new vaccine;
- Understand how to use a cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to measure the costs and benefits of introducing a rotavirus vaccine;
- Identify the main drivers of CEA for a rotavirus vaccine;
- Conduct a cost analysis for introducing a rotavirus vaccine.
- Define the rationale for advocacy on rotavirus vaccines;
- Prepare tools for spreading advocacy messages;
- Identify different audiences for outreach;
- Plan for crisis communications.
- Monitor the reach of the rotavirus immunization program through recording immunization coverage.
- Evaluate the impact of the rotavirus immunization program through monitoring disease incidence.
- 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 industrys 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.
- Identify the basic elements of science based policy
- Establish the relationship between science and policies for evidence-based publich health policy and practice