The World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), in collaboration with the UWI’s Clinical Epidemiology Unit (UWI-CEU) within the Epidemiology Research Unit (ERU), will host a follow-up four day training workshop in Train the Trainer course for six  researchers and an administrator  from  April 6-9, 2010 .
The WHO/TDR Initiative “Planning for Success” was established in 2003 to support skill-building for project management in health research in developing countries The intention is to strengthen the skills of  potential trainers to enable them to train researchers to effectively plan, implement, monitor and evaluate biomedical research projects.

The objectives of the course are to check/ensure that the process of project planning and evaluation has been assimilated and the related skills have been strengthened; to enhance abilities and confidence to transfer these skills to researchers; to strengthen presentation skills; to strengthen training skills including facilitation skills and to strengthen course organization capabilities.

Several institutions are contributing to these long term efforts geared towards developing sustainable capacities for health research in the Caribbean. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), World Health Organization Tropical Disease Research (WHO/TDR), CIDEIM (Collaborating center) and, the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID)  have partnered with The UWI  to host this workshop.

The UWI is grateful for this support as it positions itself to be a reference centre for these skill building activities within the Caribbean.