Vol. 10, No. 1 October-December 2004

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TRAINING & EDUCATION

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center Training Calendar 2005

Regular Courses
  • Skills for Effective Trainers (SET-1), Bangkok, 18 – 29 April
  • Community-based Psychological Support (CBPS-1), Bangkok, 16 - 18 May
  • Psychological Support Practitioners Workshop (CBPS-1A), Bangkok, 16 - 20 May (in combination with the CBPS-1 Course)
  • Exercise Management (EXM-1), Bangkok, 16 – 20 May
  • Disaster Mental Health (DMH-1), Bangkok, 6 – 10 June
  • Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM-13), Bangkok, 4 – 15 July
  • Crisis and Consequence Management (CCM-1), Bangkok, 8 – 11 August
  • Chemical, Biological, and Radionuclear Disasters (CBRN-1), Bangkok, 22 – 26 August
  • Flood Disaster Risk Management (FDRM-7), Bangkok, 12 – 23 September
  • Disaster Management Course (DMC-32), Bangkok, 7 – 25 November

For more information contact Strategic Disaster Risk Management Team Leader at: merrick@adpc.net

Program Based Courses

Urban Disaster Risk Management

  • Land-use Planning in Disaster Management, Bangkok, March
  • Capacity Building in Asia Using Information Technology Application in Disaster Management in collaboration with ITC Netherlands, Vietnam, May
  • Urban Flood Management Training (UFM-6), Hat Yai, Thailand, September
  • Earthquake Vulnerability Reduction Course (EVRC-5),Bangladesh, August

For more information contact Urban Disaster Risk Management Team Leader at: arambepola@adpc.net

Public Health Courses

  • Management of Public Health Risk (MPHR-2) in collaboration with WHO-EMRO, Tunisia, March (by invitation only)
  • Collapse Structure Search and Rescue (CSSR), China, March (For Chinese Residents)
  • Disasters and Development with a Focus on Health (D&D) WHO-EHA, Pakistan, March (For Pakistani Residents)
  • Public Health and Emergency Management in Asia and the Pacific (PHEMAP-5), Bangkok, July (open to all)
  • Hospital Emergency Preparedness and Response (HEPR-3), Bangkok, September (open to all)
  • Disasters and Development in collaboration with WHO and UNDP, Bangkok, November (by invitation only)

For more information on health related courses contact Public Health in Emergencies Team Leader at: marcel@adpc.net

The dates are subject to change. To receive information on ADPC training and other activities, send a blank e-mail to adpc-announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


 


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