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Projects

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

UPNG Capacity Building in Nursing Education Program

Location: Papua New Guinea
Donor: AusAID
Duration: March - November 2005

Monash International Projects is delivered this program in partnership with the School of Nursing, Monash University and the University of Papua New Guinea under the AusAID funded PNG Incentive Fund. This program seeks to improve the provision of quality health care by the nursing profession, and to increase opportunities for the nursing workforce for life long learning. The program will achieved this by (i) establishing a sustainable institutional capacity at UPNG to develop and deliver quality pre and in-service nursing education; (ii) providing course materials and resources for the teaching of the Bachelor of Clinical Nursing by UPNG through distance learning.

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Indonesia Rural Health and Population Project

Location: Indonesia and Australia
Donor: Ministry of Health, Indonesia / Asian Development Bank
Duration: February 2000 - July 2001

Monash International Projects and the Faculty of Medicine delivered a one-and-a-half-year Fellowship Program in the Master of Public Health Services Management to 30 Indonesian Ministry of Health Officials in Australia.  The project aimed to upgrade the skills of health officials, by improving their capabilities in strategic planning and management skills, preparing budgets, developing and communicating plans, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.  Workshops were conducted in Jakarta as part of the program.

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Papua New Guinea - Bachelor of Nursing Conversion Degree

Location: 8 provinces in Papua New Guinea
Donor: AusAID
Duration: February 2002 - current

Monash International Projects and the School of Nursing are currently delivering the Bachelor of Nursing (Post Registration) degree by Supported Distance Learning to 80 nurses in 8 provinces in Papua New Guinea. Staff from the School of Nursing travel to PNG to conduct an initial appraisal of training sites, identify local support tutors, finalise course arrangements and deliver in-country support seminars for the course.

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Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology and Environmental

Location: Australia
Donor: Ministry of Health, Indonesia
Duration: May - June 2002

These two short courses on Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology and Environmental Health Risk Assessment were delivered to 24 Indonesian Ministry of Health officials over four weeks. The purpose of the training was to upgrade the skills of the participants in relation to the applications of epidemiology in occupational and environmental health, and the surveillance of exposure and disease.  The short courses were funded through the ADB's Intensified Communicable Disease Control (ICDC) Project.

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Health Economics Component - PNG Pharmacy Up-Grade Project

Location: Papua New Guinea
Donor: AusAID
Duration: 2002 - 2006

Monash International Projects is working with the Victorian College of Pharmacy to deliver consultancy and training services under the PNG Pharmacy Up-Grade Project.  This Project aims to reform the distribution and procurement of pharmaceutical products in PNG.

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Health Economics and Communicable Disease Control

Location: Melbourne, Australia
Donor: Ministry of Health, Indonesia / Asian Development Bank
Duration: 1st – 19th December 2003

The Burnet Institute in collaboration with Monash International delivered this three-week course in Australia, on Health Economics and Communicable Disease Control for 14 officials of the Indonesian Ministry of Health. The course was aimed at increasing the participants' knowledge and understanding on the following areas: assessment of health program efficiency, using best practice methodologies, identifying the potential risks affecting the budget process, developing skills in priority setting and risk-based policy making, conducting consistent, transparent appraisals and reporting of the environmental health situation in a local or national context, conducting benefit monitoring evaluation, and developing Action Plans.

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Health Services Promotion Training in Indonesia

Location: Indonesia (Southeast Sulawesi, West Nusatenggara, East Nusatenggara)
Donor: AusAID
Duration: August – September 2004

This series of eight short course were delivered in Kendari (Southeast Sulawesi), Mataram (West Nusatenggara), and Kupang (East Nusatenggara), for a total of 160 government officials from the Ministry of Health, Indonesia. The course addressed the principles of community engagement regarding the preparation and delivery of health promotion programs to community leaders. It also covered topics such as (i) principles of community engagement, (ii) strengthening community action and the need for comprehensive approaches to health promotion; (iii) determinants of and challenges for public health, and health services reorientation towards disease prevention, (iv) identification of new and re-emerging infectious diseases, and behavioural and biological changes in society.

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