The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is launching a 3-month (Certificate) Distance Learning Courses on Tobacco Control. It is developed in collaboration with the University of Southern California (USC) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) and tailored to India, these courses are designed for health professionals, legal professionals, administrators, law enforcement officers, journalists and students and are designed to allow professionals to work on their own pace. The course has been developed under the project ‘Strengthening of Tobacco Control Efforts through innovative Partnerships and Strategies (STEPS)’.

The courses, which are being launched on 31st May, 2011 (WNTD) will be offered three times a year:

Batch I: June, 2011 to August, 2011

Batch II: October, 2011 to December, 2011

Batch III: February, 2012 to April, 2012.

The deadline to receive applications for first batch of all the courses is 10th May, 2011.

If you have any questions on the course or how to fill in the application, where to send it etc you can find all relevant information at:
http://www.phfi.org/programmes/stc_tobacco_control.html

http://www.phfi.org/downloads/ST%20brochure.pdf

Any inquiry can also refer to miss Wong Yi Lian (regional chairperson of Malaysia) rcmalaysia@amsa-international.org