Press Releases 2000
Update course on communicable diseases
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Applications are invited for an "Update Course on Communicable Diseases 2000" to be jointly organised by the Department of Health (DH) and the University of Hong Kong's School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPACE) in May this (2000) year.
This short course provides an update on current communicable diseases important in clinical and public health contexts. It introduces local epidemiology and prevention/control strategy on viral hepatitis, AIDS, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, pulmonary tuberculosis and infectious skin diseases.
It aims at providing participant with general knowledge of communicable diseases so as to enable them to have a better understanding of how to prevent and control these diseases.
The target audience includes nurses, paramedical health professionals and health educators. The course coordinator is Dr Chan Chi Wing, Honorary Associate Professor of SPACE. Speakers will include microbiologists, clinicians and public health practitioners.
The fee is $700 per participant. The six-session course will be conducted mainly in Chinese and supplemented in English and will be organised from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm every Wednesday starting May 3. The venue will be Room S6, Admiralty Learning Centre, Admiralty Centre, 3/F, Harcourt Road, Hong Kong.
The closing date for applications is April 17.
For enquiries and details of the course, please contact Ms Wong Mei-yut of the Red Ribbon Centre at 2304 6268.