Public Health :: 15th Summer School 2011

Update and upskill yourself by attending one or more of the courses we will be running in February 2011.

• Themes and courses for 2011
• Course times and functions for 2011(to be finalised in mid 2010)
• PDF brochure for 2011 summer school (to be finalised in mid 2010)
• Registration form for 2011 (Word) with prices - usually $300 per course per day
• Secure online Registration form for credit card payments
• Location of the Summer School in Newtown (Wellington) and sustainable transport options
• Accommodation suggestions located near the Summer School in Newtown
  
  

Themes and Courses for 2011

• Epidemiology, statistical methods and research
• Applied epidemiology
• Qualitative methods
• Health systems, evidence and economics
• Public Health law and ethics
• Maori health, ethnicity and cultural competencies
• Healthy public policy
• Urban health and sustainability
  
  

Epidemiology, statistical methods and research

• Getting started in public health research (Monday 7 February)
• Introduction to Epidemiology (Thursday 10 February)
• Social epidemiology (3 days - Monday 7 - Wednesday 9 February)
• Advanced epidemiology (3 days - Monday 21 - Wednesday 23 February)
• Introduction to basic biostatistics for health research (Friday 11 February)
• Introduction to SAS - statistical software (Monday 14 February)
• Regression methods with SAS (Tuesday 15 February)
  

Applied epidemiology

• Occupational epidemiology for health practitioners (2 days - Thursday 17 and Friday 18 February))
• Infectious disease epidemiology (2 days - Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 February)
• Spatial epidemiology (Wednesday 23 February)
• Informatics for public health professionals (Thursday 24 February)
• Environmental epidemiology (Friday 25 February)

Qualitative methods

• Introduction to Qualitative Methods (Tuesday 15 February)
• NVivo 9 Part 1 (Wednesday 16 February)
• NVivo 9 part 2 (Thursday 17 February)
  

Health systems, evidence and economics

• Introduction to the NZ health system (Monday 7 February)
• Introduction to health economics (Tuesday 8 February)
• Evidence for health and public health (Wednesday 9 February)
• Healthcare assessment and prioritisation (Thursday 10 February)
• Introduction to markov modelling and uncertainty analysis (Monday 28 February and Tuesday 1 March)

Public health law and ethics

• Public Health ethics (Friday 11 February)

Maori health, ethnicity and cultural competencies

• Introduction to Māori Health (Monday 14 February)
• Introduction to Pacific health (Tuesday 15 February)
• Cultural competence in public health (Wednesday 16 February)

Healthy public policy

• Introduction to Health Impact Assessment (2 days - Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 February)
• Advanced Health Impact Assessment (2 days - Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 February)
• Achieving a tupeka kore Aotearoa / smokefree New Zealand (Friday 18 February)

Urban health and sustainability

• Community interventions for urban sustainability (Tuesday 10 February)
• Housing heating and health: result from a community trial (Monday 14 February)

Course times and functions for 2011

All courses will begin at 9.00am and finish no later than 5.30pm each day, with an hour for lunch, and a short breaks during the morning and afternoon. Lunch, morning tea and afternoon tea are provided (all food is vegetarian in keeping with the policy of the Summer School in lowering its carbon emissions profile.)

Location map and sustainable transport options

Sustainable transport options

Bus
A number of bus services (including bus routes 1, 3,10, 11, 18, 22,
23, 29, 43/44,49) pass by the main entrance of Wellington Hospital
in Riddiford Street, Newtown.

Details of times and bus numbers are available by calling Metlink on 0800 801 7000.

Cycling
There are bike stands out the front of the medical school.

Walking
Newtown & Berhampore Walking Map, at http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/wellington.html#maps
which includes the hospital area.

Accommodation suggestions

View accommodation suggestions in a larger map

click on each of the pointers for details about the various accommodation options.

Southgate Motor Inn
70-72 Riddiford Street
Newtown

Tel 64 4 9399292

Adelaide Motel
209-211 Adelaide Road

Tel 64 4 3898138

Ascot Motor Lodge
46 Riddiford Street

Tel 0800380004

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