Is Short-term Training Useful in International Environmental and Occupational Health Projects? Experience from the Balkans and Latin America

Abstract

Short courses/workshops for international training in environmental and occupational health are an important tool for supplementing longer-term training at the graduate-degree level. Considerable collective and shared experiences in short-term training have been accumulated among these 13 projects sponsored by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH) program. This article presents general aspects and considerations of short-term training and highlights guidelines drawn from specific experiences with such training activities in Balkan and Latin American countries.

Keywords:

• The Balkans
• Latin America
• non-degree training
• short-term training
• course evaluation
• needs assessment
• Fogarty International Center
• environmental health
• occupational health