- Each participant will have basic conceptual foundations of conflict and human rights to analyze and debug issues in the context of international health; - Regarding the subject of the draft country, each country group will make a critical and analytical reading of the tensions and conflicts within and between states, their interests and actions of other international actors, assessing the implications and its effects on health; - Regarding the issue of national project, each country group make a proposal on how they should intervenirse tensions, crises or conflicts in favor of achieving social justice and ensure the right to health.

- Explain the importance of nutrition in human capital formation and its link to development; - Know the action framework to enlarge scale multisectoral interventions, based on scientific evidence, which have a greater impact on nutrition and development. - Describe the main trends of development models, their relation to the determinants of health and nutrition and its implications in the project country. - Analyze the potential effects of climate change on food security and nutrition and development.

- Having the conceptual basis and the fundamentals of physics of climate change and its relationship to development models (adaptation, mitigation, vulnerability, impact, impacts, resilience, etc..) To analyze, from the perspective of international health, how they interrelate with each other and how they impact on the human dimension and the determinants of health from global to local; - Conduct an analysis of the implications of development models in the issues raised in the project country; - Sustain a critical and proactive about the gaps, initiatives, decisions or proposals for reducing vulnerability, adaptation and existing policies in order to provide input into the definition of a regional position on climate change and health. This will also aid to generating public awareness and capacity building on the subject.

- Gain a better understanding of the conceptual basis of chronic diseases, major routes and prevention strategies; - Understand and analyze the major routes by which trade impacts the consumption of food, alcohol and snuff, with particular reference to their country and sub​​-region; - Identify existing trade agreements to which subscribe their country and their impact on the general welfare of the country, with particular reference to food, alcohol and snuff and the differential impact on specific populations; - Explain the arguments for health in foreign policy that inform global health diplomacy and how they can position themselves in trade negotiations; - Understand the main trade issues related to the topic of your project for the country and propose a strategy to address them.

-To understand and analyze the main social and technical factors that lead to the acknowledgement and consolidation of medicines as an essential component for health and its inclusion in the national and international health, trade and development agendas. -To understand and make use of the international regulatory and political frameworks which define access to medicines as a human right. -To understand the characteristics of the international pharmaceutical trade and the negotiation processes involved, as well as discuss their implications for the access to medicines. -To understand and discuss the implications of the International agreements and negotiations around intellectual property rights on the access to medicines.

- Assess the importance of the Leaders in International Health Program "Edmundo Granda Ugalde" (LIHP), its conceptual model and applications, creating a framework for international health and the health context in the region of the Americas; - Identify national health priorities, according to Strategy UN Cooperation and PAHO / WHO Country (CCA-UNDAF-CCS), the main challenges and the stakeholders; - Reflect and dialogue with the national authorities of PAHO / WHO and the LIHP coordination on the issue of national project in international health, following the relevant guidelines for the selection; - Start the study of conceptual foundations and agendas related to bilateral and multilateral agreements, the social determinants of health, primary care Renewed Health and the Millennium Development Goals; - Manage virtual technologies, particularly tools Virtual Campus of Public Health and Health Situation Rooms International, to participate effectively in the LIHP virtual activities; - Apply research methodologies in the development of their project proposal to ensure that this country follow the rules and contribute to the quality of it.

Show how risk communication should be based on an analysis of the health situation and the dialogue with the priority population.

Upon finishing the course, participants should be able to: - Design risk communication strategies using a risk map to analyze the local context and systematically incorporating lessons learned. - Understand the importance of risk perceptions and other relevant risk communication concepts and incorporate these in the design of effective strategies and in adjustments according to the local context. - Identify monitoring and evaluation activities appropriate for the interventions and communication processes in the risk communication strategy. - Understand the important steps for communicating effectively with the internal and external target audiences, including partners, stakeholders, the media, online social networks, health personnel and the public.

Identify core issues that should be addressed when deciding whether to announce or withhold information during a public health emergency.

- Understand the need to integrate risk communication into the planning process of national risk management and emergency response strategies. - Understand the conceptual and theoretical foundations of risk perception and their applicability during a response to a public health emergency. - Learn basic principles for strengthening internal and inter-agency communication coordination during a public health emergency response.