News about the LEADERS Course

Spanish
The fourth Spanish-language Lideres course will be held in Cuernavaca, Mexico from 20-31 October 2003. Lideres is an international course that focuses on the management aspects of disaster reduction and has been training professionals in the Americas since 2000. Deadline for application to the October course: 29 August 2003. Write curso-lideres@paho.org.

Portuguese
For the first time, Lideres will be offered in Portuguese from 22 September to 3 October 2003 in Ciudad de Bahia, Brazil. With support from the Secretary of Health of the state of Bahia and the Federal University of Bahia, the Portuguese-language couse will help to consolidate the regional capacity to manage risk, with emphasis on the health and social sector. Deadline for application: 1 September 2003. Write curso-lideres@bra.ops-oms.org.

English
The World Health Organization and its Southeast Asia Regional Office will tailor the English-language Leaders course, given last February in Jamaica, to a global audience, primarily Asia, with support from the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok, Thailand. The course is tentatively scheduled for February 2004. Contact Dr. Luis Jorge Perez at perezl@ewhosea.org.

For more information about the Lideres course, visit www.disaster-info.net/LIDERES

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