A knowledge society cannot be constituted with millions of people kept technically illiterate and vocationally disengaged. India with more than a billion people has an elaborate public system of imparting technical and vocational education, which, however, suffers from a mismatch with expectations of the market as also from the inability to address issues related to traditional artisan skills. ...

OBJECTIVE Literature on human resources for health in Africa has focused on personal health services. Little is known about graduate public health education. This paper maps "advanced" public health education in Africa. Public health includes all professionals needed to manage and optimize health systems and the public's health. METHODS Data were collected through questionnaires and personal ...

INTRODUCTION A retrospective cohort study on Salmonella-associated diseases (SADs) was conducted in 14 public hospitals across Lagos State, Nigeria, between 1999 and 2008. METHODOLOGY Medical records of clinically diagnosed patients with confirmed Salmonella infections were reviewed for the 10-year period. Laboratory diagnosis of typhoid fever cases in all the hospitals were first based on Wi...

Internet technologies provide opportunities to improve teaching and learning of the principal competencies in a graduate-level, professional education. Epidemiology is a core area of public health education. We designed Epiville as a set of interactive web-based exercises employed as weekly homework assignments at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Its four key components, n...