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Courses related to specific infections or areas of expertise (including epidemiology, microbiology)

May 2013

Molecular Approaches to Clinical Microbiology in Africa (Blantyre, Malawi)
Date: 25 May - 1 June 2013
Location:
Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
Website/further information:
Click here for the Wellcome website.

June 2013

Research Methods in Sexual Health and HIV
Date: 24-28 June 2013
Location:
central London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/iph/courses
Technical workshop for Basic and Clinical Parasitology
Date: 17-21 June 2013
Location:
Porto, Portugal
Website/further information:
http://www.escmid.org/dates_events/escmid_courses/

July 2013

Epidemiological evaluation of vaccines: efficacy, safety and policy
Date: 8 - 19 July 2013
Location:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Website/further information:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/cpd/seev.html

August 2013

13th International Course on Dengue
Date: 12-23 August 2013
Location:
Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute, Havana, Cuba
Website/further information:
http://instituciones.sld.cu/ipk/anuncioc/

September 2013

Genomic Epidemiology in Africa
Date: 15-20 September 2013
Location:
MRC/UVRI Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda
Website/further information:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/overseascourses

October 2013

Working with Parasite Database Resources
Date: 20-25 October 2013
Location:
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Website/further information:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/workshops

No specified date

Quantitative T cell Immunology
Date: Throughout the academic year
Location:
Initial Training Network
Website/further information:
http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/applied/QUANTI/
Diploma in Hospital Infection Control (DipHIC)
Date: Throughout the academic year
Location:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Website/further information:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/short/shic.html
Identibac Training Courses (Identibac is a range of new bacterial genotyping
kits from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency)
Date: Two day course, typically held monthly. Ad hoc courses can be arranged.
Location:
Weybridge, Surrey (but can be held in other locations)
Website/further information:
http://www.identibac.com/training.php
Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Date: Annually, January for three months
Location:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Website/further information:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/short/stmh.html
Graduate Certificate in Infection Prevention & Control
Date: contact university.
Location:
University of Leeds
Website/further information:
Contact b.a.gallacher@leeds.ac.uk
Immunisation and Vaccination Update
Date: contact CPD unit for forthcoming dates(see website)
Location:
Faculty of Health, Birmingham
Website/further information:
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/health/
Tuberculosis: Diploma Level Module
Date: via distance learning
Location:
Education for Health, Warwick
Website/further information:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/
Paediatric HIV in Europe
Date: via distance learning / online
Location:
Tr@inforPedHIV 2008
Website/further information:
http://www.pentatrials.org/other.htm
Safety of Medicines (introductory and advanced modules)
Date: via distance learning
Location:
Drug Safety Research Unit
Website/further information:
http://www.dsru.org/learningmodule/index.php
International Health Management modules
Date: various, see website
Location:
Imperial College London
Website/further information:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/cpd/courses/subject/healthmanagement
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Courses related to statistics / modelling / analysis / datasets

February 2013

Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Date: 4-15 February 2013
Location:
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge
Website/further information:
Click here for the Wellcome website.
Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Data Publishing Training
Date: 18-22 February 2013
Location:
Nairobi, Kenya
Website/further information:
Click here for more information
Ecological Niche Modeling Course
Date: 25-28 February 2013
Location:
Nairobi, Kenya
Website/further information:
Click here for more information

September 2013

Animal Agriculture and Food Safety Risk Analysis and Disease Modeling Course

Date: 2-13, September 2013
Location: The Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
Website/further information:
http://www.rvc.ac.uk/News/Events/ev-RVC-Epix-Animal-Agriculture-Course.cfm

Introduction to Mathematical Models of the Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases
Date: 16-27 September 2013 2013
Location:
Imperial College London
Website/further information:
http://www.infectiousdiseasemodels.org/

No specified date

Data analysis and statistics
Date: various, contact City University
Location:
London
Website/further information:
http://www.city.ac.uk/communityandhealth/cpd/modules/SGM205.html
Courses on Stata, Minitab, SPSS, R, Matlab
Date: various courses on various dates
Location:
Run by Statistical Advisory Service, Imperial College London
Website/further information:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/stathelp/courses
Epidemiology, Statistics and Health Information
Date: distance learning course
Location:
Run by the University of Birmingham
Website/further information:
http://pcpoh.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/programmes/mph/coremodules/phes.htm
Medical Statistics Using SPSS: an Introductory Course (online course)
Date: online course
Location:
Run by the University of Sheffield
Website/further information:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/spss/
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Courses related to governance, best practice, systematic reviews, databases and clinical trials

January 2013

One-Day Introduction to Planning and Building Databases for Scientific Research
Date: 11 January 2013
Location:
Russell Square, London
Website/further information:
http://re-base.net/training.cfm

February 2013

One-Day Introduction to Planning and Building Databases for Scientific Research
Date: 8 February 2013
Location:
Russell Square, London
Website/further information:
http://re-base.net/training.cfm
Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Course
Date: 25 February - 1 March 2013
Location:
Joanna Briggs Institute, University of West London
Website/further information:
Click here for more information.

March 2013

One-Day Introduction to Planning and Building Databases for Scientific Research
Date: 8 March 2013
Location:
Russell Square, London
Website/further information:
http://re-base.net/training.cfm

April 2013

Implementing Quality Systems in Research Environments
Date: 9-10 April 2013
Location:
Madingley Hall, Cambridge
Website/further information:
http://www.barqa.com/courses/c3062-implementing-quality-systems-course/
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