Master class Public health interventions in real-life settings: the AGORA experience First edition 8 - 10 November 2010 Wageningen Organised by the Graduate Schools VLAG and Mansholt and AGORA Academic Collaborative Centre.
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Background
The Graduate School VLAG and Mansholt will organise a new Master class around the theme ‘public health interventions in real-life settings: the AGORA experience’. This Master class is the result of four years of experience with projects in our Academic Collaborative Centre AGORA, which is a consortium of the Community Health Service Gelre-IJssel and Wageningen University.
Target group
The master class is especially developed for public health researchers and professionals from practice, working in the field of health promotion, epidemiology, nutrition and health sciences, and communication sciences.
Course aim
The aim of this master class is to make knowledge and research methodologies available to researchers working in public health practice.
Course design
During the master class speakers from the Netherlands and abroad, working in the fields of policy, practice, and science will be invited to talk and discuss about this topic. On the first day, the emphasis will be on methods that can be used for designing and evaluating public health interventions. Both simple and complex interventions will be discussed. During the second day, the evidence-base and theory-base of interventions will be discussed. These are important conditions for admission of interventions in the quality system of the RIVM (National Institute of Public Health) Centre for Healthy Living. During the last day, the focus will be on practice. Intervention programmes conducted in real-life settings will be discussed. The master class will consist of plenary sessions, group work, and digital education modules.
The keynote speaker of the master class will be Prof. Mark Petticrew from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Besides, speakers of several intervention projects as SLIM lifestyle intervention and EPODE will contribute to the master class.
Course coordinators
Other faculty
Date & duration
The course will be held from 8 - 10 November 2010.
Study load
The study load of this course is 0.8 ECTS credits.
Language
The course language will be English.
Location & accommodation
Lectures will be given at the Hof van Wageningen in Wageningen. Wageningen is located 5 kms from the railway station of Ede-Wageningen. Wageningen University can be reached by train (railway station Ede-Wageningen) and bus/taxi in less than two hours from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (see for train schedules: www.ns.nl).
A number of hotel rooms have been blocked at the hotel Hof van Wageningen for course participants, but only until 28 September 2010. Accommodation costs are € 75 (single room; incl. breakfast, excl. tax) per night. Hotel reservation is handled by hotel Hof van Wageningen. Participants have to book their own hotel room by sending an e-mail:info@hofvanwageningen.nl.
Please mention booking code: agora10
Contact information
For more information regarding the course contents please contact
Dr. Annemien Haveman-Nies; Annemien.Haveman@wur.nl
For more information regarding organisational matters please contact
Ingeborg van Leeuwen-Bol: Ingeborg.vanLeeuwen-Bol@wur.nl
Registration is closed.
The final registration date is 4 October 2010 (postponed from 3 September 2010). Registrations are accepted in the order in which the registration form and course fee payment are received. The course fee (which includes materials, coffee/tea during breaks, lunches and one dinner but does not cover accommodation) depends on the participant's affiliation:
| Industry / For-Profit | € 1200 |
| University staff / Non-Profit organisations | € 600 |
| PhD students | € 300 |
| VLAG PhD students and participants of GGD | € 150 |
Applicants will be informed of acceptance of their registration after September 28, 2010. They will then receive instructions for payment, a letter of acceptance and further course details.
Cancellations may be made free of charge until 4 October 2010. After this date the charge will be 25% of the course fee already paid or due. Substitutions for participants may be made until the start of the course.
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