From: Ryan Borcherding
Learn how to produce Interactive Radio Drama (IRD) for a wide range of gender, SRHR, SGBV and COVID-19 behaviour change and advocacy objectives.
IRD is a unique social and behaviour change communication tool from Theatre for a Change. It has been used in multiple countries since 2010 to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of marginalised and vulnerable women and girls, with documented results.
IRD enables audiences to call in to the radio station and replace the main character in the radio drama, to show what they could do differently to change the story for the better. It enables behaviour change and advocacy to happen on a large scale. In Malawi, we reach over 550,000 listeners through interactive broadcasts each week.
We are now offering online training in our IRD approach to enable other organisations to use IRD in their gender, SRHR, SGBV and COVID-19 behaviour change and advocacy work.
To view the full course outline, including eligibility requirements, please see www.tfacafrica.com/online-training
For more information, please contact Ryan Borcherding on ryan.borcherding AT tfacafrica.com
Ryan Borcherding
My source:
The Communication Initiative Network
Following a thread on HIFA on Antibiotic Drug Resistance here is an additional item:
Hello, I’d like to explore the opportunities for HIFA to help promote a new online open, short-course that we have produced specifically for the public, ‘An introduction to antibiotics and drug resistant infections’. We have recently launched this free resource, and it has currently now being used in 70 countries, with a high course-completion rate, and more than 93% rating it highly. Consequently we are keen to provide as many opportunities to help people become aware of this online course, for which they can get their free certificate of completion too.
I’d appreciate any advice and direction to promote, and whether it can be promoted through HIFA too.
https://bit.ly/antibiotics-and-you
https://catalogue.manchester.ac.uk/browse/i3hs/open-courses/courses/antibiotics-and-you-an-introduction-to-antibiotic-resistant-infections
https://www.instagram.com/antibioticsandyou
Regards
Roger
Dr Roger Harrison (PhD)
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Division Lead for Social Responsibility
Chair ‘Action on Antibiotic Drug Resistance: One student, one campus, one world’.
Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care | School of Health Sciences | Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |The University of Manchester | C4.6 Ellen Wilkinson Building | Oxford Road | Manchester M13 9PT.
Skype rogerharrisonuk
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Public understanding of Science | Managers, Policy Makers, Commissioners ... |
Dear all,
I hope that you are well.
We are super-excited as we are just putting the final touches on our online course on Global Health and Disability. It features key global leaders in disability and many testimonials and videos from people with disabilities from around the world. It argues strongly for the inclusion of people with disabilities in development.
I would be very grateful if you would share the information below with colleagues or others who may be interested in joining the course. It is suited to anyone with an interest in health and disability, from low or high income settings, and should take up about 2-3 hours per week for 3 weeks. The launch is Feb 26. Let me know if you have any questions.
All the best,
Hannah
Global Health and Disability
Leaving no one behind: disability, health and wellbeing in global development
A 3 week (maximum 4 hours per week) free online course from the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Course starts 26th February 2018
For more details, to check out the trailer or to register your free place on the course, click here:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/global-disability/1
Why join the course:
Around 15% of the world’s population, or 1 billion people, live with some form of disability, with numbers continuing to rise over the coming decades.
People with disabilities are often overlooked in national and international development, and can face widespread barriers in accessing services, including health and rehabilitation services, even though simple initiatives are available to enable access. Our three week course aims to raise awareness about the importance of health and well-being of people with disabilities in the context of the global development agenda: Leaving no one behind.
What topics will you cover?
on the subway of course...
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Open source, open science, open data, open access, open education, open learning -- This fall Stanford faculty and librarians are working with international partners to offer the innovative free (no-cost) course Open Knowledge: Changing the Global Course of Learning on [updated] http://online.stanford.edu.
Whether you are teacher, lecturer or a student we are all lifelong learners.
As the new academic year starts in the Northern hemisphere, students will have new concepts to learn. They must also integrate these concepts with previous learning and experiences. Remember that while concepts are:
I learned of this new initiative on the Drupal for Libraries list in a post by Ari Davidow.
Using Drupal with the help of a MacArthur grant, author and educator Howard Rheingold has set up:
Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory
This provides an interesting perspective on the use of open source tools with value-added service provision.Welcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory. It’s all free, as in both “freedom of speech” and “almost totally free beer.” We invite you to build on what we’ve started to create more free value. The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMC materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don’t want to install your own. (See this for an explanation of who “we” are).
Before my son's bike race at Darley Moor on Saturday*, I picked up the latest Health Service Journal and flask of coffee. Reading the editorial I was struck by the sequence of the two items and my experience or lack of it.
The first item 'Consistency and agreement are needed to spread success' concerned the Commons Public Accounts Committee report on financial management and its conclusions. These included the need to share lessons learned from successful financial turnaround programmes plus (paraphrased):
The performance of the finance function is too patchy, inadequate in more than a quarter of organisations. There are recurring problems with recruitment, training and development with the central issue being the role of clinicians in financial management.
The much desired engagement here is between senior clinicians and management. The recent BBC 2 series Can Gerry Robinson Fix The NHS? demonstrated the all-to frequent gulf between managers and senior clinicians.
Returning to the HSJ editorial: payment by results - the much vaunted tipping point for clinical engagement in finance has (thus far) not tipped. For mental health there's still time, but then déjà vu kicked in. Quite a few years ago I remember getting ready to catch micro-commissioning and run with it, but the pass never came. It is happening in some places, with big brother macro-commissioning. I was pleased and yet disappointed. Pleased because at the time I was Team Leader for a Community Mental Health Team for Older People and I - quite typically then and now for such posts - also had a caseload. The disappointment followed from recognition that not only had a learning opportunity been lost, but a management learning opportunity to boot.
Amid the taste of coffee irony filtered through: that missing tipping point, the need for wider cultural changes (service line accounting) and clinically in mental health (and elsewhere) the focus on risk. People 'at risk' must not fall through the net. Well I don't know the details of service line accounting and the like, but I do know that while planting trees provides instant results, it is labour intensive and risky compared with sowing seeds. After all - never rely on one prong when several can help get your point across...
Mr Robinson's series revealed that other clinicians can act as change agents. Shifting the risk context to finance, how many clinicians fall through the management net? OK, hands up, if like me seeing a bottom-line makes you blush? My 1st line management course was some twenty five years ago. Six, or seven years later saw me on a not-quite-a-middle-management-course. Then I listened out for him, but LEO (Leading Empowered Organisations) never knocked on my door. Yes, I could have chased this. ... If clinicians are soft-wired to take detours around financial centers, somebody had better make sure those seeds are carrots.
The second item concerned joint working - asset-sharing between the NHS and local government and the journal's features on patient-public involvement, population health-NHS-Local Authority, joint strategic needs assessments. It just struck me that there's so much we don't understand about the functioning of these distinct organisations. Will integration help, or is it creating another layer of complexity? I'm all for encouraging and nourishing new ideas, but how does your garden grow with too much nitrogen?
Up to a few years ago I had something in common with Alan from TRON:
"I don't even balance my checkbook on downtime."
Finances looked after themselves. Not any more: cue pension wake up call and we are all tax-payers...
Seriously though, where do we want our intelligence to be in 10-20 years time?
Imagine financial reports that also relate to local public (mental) health outcomes. Maybe these exist in some places? Now that's a code disc that really would summon in a new order. Make financial information relevant to the clinical practitioners who make up the [ holistic ;-) ] multidisciplinary team then the trees will start walking.
*Punctured!
Nick Edwards (2007) Comment, HSJ, 22 March, p.3
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
PG Cert. Ed.
BA(Joint Hons.) Computing and Philosophy - BIHE - Bolton
PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
MRES. e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster Univ.
Live and work in NW England - seeking a global perspective.
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