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Public Health Training at PHFI |
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Capacity building in public health is one of the primary mandates of the Public Health Foundation of India. Besides the ongoing academic courses, there is a need for conducting short term courses/ in service training on various public health areas of topical importance. The Training Division at PHFI was established in 2008 with the goal of meeting the short term training needs of public health practitioners and professionals of the health and allied sectors in India. It has, since then, conducted several training programmes customised to the identified needs of health service personnel of different states, young health researchers, physicians in practice and national health programme managers and consultants. Objectives
The Training Division of the Public Health Foundation of India has the following objectives:
- Identification of functional areas of training and conduct training needs assessments in health and allied sectors on a periodic basis
- Provide technical assistance in conducting monitoring and evaluation of short term training programmes on critical public health issues in collaboration with other public health institutions, client agencies, central and state governments
- Organize regional, national and international level consultations on issues related to human resources in health, skill building of health workforce online pokies and related topics
- Conduct original research in training technology, monitoring and evaluation tools and capacity building techniques in public health
- Promote concepts of Continuing Medical Education and e- learning among health practitioners
Competencies
- State-of-the-art learning platform, with presence in four states and the capability to deliver customized programmes with roulette efficient and effective training management capability, making PHFI an ideal learning partner .
- Creation of need-based and client-based content with interactive teaching methods and casinospill field-based experiential learning
- Diversity of training topics and programmes showcase PHFI as a ‘one-stop solution’ to public health capacity building needs
- Enabling trainees from public health and other sectors to take on effective leadership roles and responsibilities
- More than 100 internationally trained in-house experts, working on research and academic projects with national and international partners; external faculty from renowned institutes within India as well as internationally is involved actively as subject matter experts
- Quality assurance for all training programmes for continuous value-addition in the field, guided by the principle of total quality management.
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