Management, Finance, and Logistics

"Learning more about monitoring and evaluation, advocacy, proper budgeting techniques, and how to apply all of these together has  impressed upon me a greater commitment to TB control."

Ying Yee Babe Chan; Executive Secretary, Hong Kong Tuberculosis, Chest and Heart Diseases Association

Effective management techniques are essential to any public health programme. Increase your programme's efficacy by further developing your own managerial capacity and gain a greater understanding about the basics of running an effective health programme.

Benefits of Attending

  • Learn to develop and understand budgets
  • Understand basic financial concepts
  • Successfully manage communications among multiple partners
  • Identify and take advantage of strategic opportunities
  • Enhance coordination through supply chain and effective logistics management
  • Recognize weaknesses in your programmes and improve management

Skills Covered

  • Financial Management
  • Project Management
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Negotiation
  • Team Building

  Participants in this course are eligible for 60 CME credits.

Who Should Attend

Middle-to-senior level programme managers in government or the nonprofit sector. Professionals from a variety of backgrounds may also benefit from this course, including physicians, nurses, educators, planners, and financial officers.

Dates and Deadlines

Management, Finance and Logistics / Bangkok, Thailand
Course dates: 15 –27 February 2010

Application deadline: 15 January 2010

*Late applications accepted on a space-available basis.

This course is also offered in French. Please contact technical-courses@theunion.org for more information. Courses tend to fill up before application deadlines, and applicants are encouraged to apply far in advance of the deadlines given. Those applications received just before the deadline risk not being able to attend the course.

Course cost is €2,000 which includes lodging, breakfast, lunch, snacks, course material, sight-seeing tours, travel to and from the airport, and faculty fees.