PHA-Exch> The Struggle For Health: IPHU Short Course For Health Activists, Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 7-20, 2008

[David Legge]

Applications are now invited from health activists from Latin America
and beyond wishing to participate in the Struggle for Health - a short
course for health activists Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 7-20, 2008. 
 
The 11 day course presented by the International People's Health
University (IPHU) and the People's Health Movement (PHM) in association
with the School of Public Health of Rio Grande do Sul will be at the
Casa de Retiro VilaBetania in Porto Alegre, Brasil.  The main language
of the course will be Portuguese.   The teaching faculty is drawn from
Latin America and beyond.  
 
The curriculum will include:
- the struggle for health: achievements, strategies and new directions; 
- working with communities and with grass roots health organisations; 
- comprehensive primary health care: achievements, lessons and new
directions; 
- the political economy of health: globalisation, the WTO, the IMF and
the WB; local issues and global pressures; 
- the right to health: principles, achievements and new directions; 
- people's health and the environmental struggle; 
- research: part of the problem and part of the solution; 
- social determinants of health (poverty, oppression and hierarchy;
alienation and exclusion; racism and sexism; materialism) and the
struggle for health. 
 
Priority, with respect to enrolment, will be given to
-younger people; 
-PHC and public health practitioners; 
-people with a track record as health activists within the people's
health movement, in particular, people who have been actively involved
in organisations which are part of the people's health movement. 
 
Applicants should have a university degree although this is not
essential. 
 
Admissions policy will aim to include participants from Latin America
generally with a focus on Brazil and the Southern Cone countries.  There
will be a few enrolments from beyond Central and South America.  
 
Scholarships covering airfares, accommodation and meals and tuition may
be available. (Applicants should seek such support from sponsors in
their own countries in the first instance.) 
 
For more about IPHU and the Porto Alegre Short Course go to
www.phmovement.org/iphu.  
 
Further inquiries to the Course Coordinators (porto at phmovement.org). 
 
Please pass on this announcement through your own lists.  
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