The Global Tuberculosis Programme in collaboration with the WHO Academy is happy to announce the launch of the e-course, Harnessing the facility of routine well being facility information: Tuberculosis.

The WHO e-course goals to strengthen technical capability on the evaluation and use of TB surveillance information for programme planning. The course makes use of grownup studying ideas with materials consisting of idea, movies, case research and observe workout routines. A WHO Academy Award of Completion will likely be supplied with the profitable completion of every module.

“This is the first-ever e-course on TB released on the new WHO Academy platform,” stated Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of WHO’s Global TB Programme. “We hope that the course will benefit millions of health workers by strengthening their capacity to close  the gap between “can” and “do” in TB monitoring and repair supply.”

The course has been designed for TB programme workers in any respect administrative items; well being facility employees concerned within the recording and reporting of TB information; WHO personnel; and workers of associate organisations or consultants offering technical help to programmes on their M&E actions. However, anybody with an curiosity within the matter is invited to take the course.

The WHO e-course may be accessed on the WHO Academy platform: here. WHO workers can log in with WHO id (WIMS) and others are invited to sign-up for the WHO Academy with a legitimate electronic mail tackle to entry the course.

The course is freed from cost and may be adopted at your personal tempo (roughly 5 hours of studying).

The course is at the moment out there in English. Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish will likely be out there by the top of 2023.

Please be aware that that is an early launch by the WHO Academy. The Academy’s platform continues to be in demo stage, so you might anticipate updates till the official launch in 2024. However, this is not going to have an effect on the educational materials or content material. We would recognize a second of your time to finish an nameless non-obligatory survey on the finish of the course to supply suggestions for bettering the expertise for future individuals. Instructions may be discovered here.

For extra data on the e-course, please contact Marek Lalli ([email protected]).

“The WHO Academy is an investment in health, education, knowledge and technology, but ultimately it’s an investment in people, and in a healthier, safer, fairer future.”

– Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO