PHA-Exchange> PAHO launches virtual public health campus

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From: "Dieter Neuvians MD" <neuvians at mweb.co.za>
> PAHO launches virtual public health campus
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> Washington, DC, April 10, 2003 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Or-
> ganization (PAHO), in association with 14 academic institutions in 
> the Americas and Spain, launched a Virtual Public Health Campus as a 
> tool to provide continuing education to public health personnel in 
> the Americas, offering a variety of distance education courses to 
> contribute to public health policy-making and to the performance of 
> health systems in the Region.
> 
> The Virtual Campus of Public Health is a virtual community offering 
> communication exchanges to generate useful knowledge, training and 
> debate between individuals and institutions on priority issues re-
> lated to health sector reform processes and the management of essen-
> tial public health functions, as well as health management and the 
> institutional development of schools of public health.
> 
> The English version of the virtual campus can be found at:
> http://www.campusvirtualsp.org/eng/index.html