This is the beginning of a collection of information.  Contact connie@jamkhed.org for more information and to add information about other resources.

Community-Based Primary Health Care  (CBPHC) 

TRAINING RESOURCES 

Books, Other Training Materials, Programs in US & Overseas

BOOKS 

Community-Based Health Care: Lessons from Bangladesh to Boston

Jon Rohde, John Wyon, editors

Management Sciences for Health, Boston, 2002  (366 pp, index)

$40.00 -- MSH 617-524-7799, bookstore@msh.org   www.msh.org

Health for All in Bangladesh

Henry Perry

University Press Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh

$10.00 -- HPerry3@earthlink.net (or available from Amazon.com)

Jamkhed:  A Comprehensive Rural Health Project

Mabelle & Rajanikant Arole

1994  (reprint, CRHP 2003)

$10.00 -- Jamkhed International Foundation  919-270-5977, jif@jamkhed.org

Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures

Daniel Taylor-Ide, Carl E. Taylor

The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2002

$19.95 -- www.jhupbooks.com

Multiplying Light & Truth through Community Health Evangelism

Stan Rowland, Medical Ambassadors International, Modesto CA

GLS Publishing, Mumbai/India, 2001

$9.95 – tel. 888-403-0600, info@medicalambassadors.org

Setting Up Community Health Programmes

Ted Lankester, Macmillan, 2002 (£5.25, available from TALC: www.talcuk.org)

OTHER TRAINING MATERIALS

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)

Contact:  Sarena Seifer  (sarena@u.washington.edu)  website:  www.ccph.info

- has a number of publications that contain articles on community-based primary care, especially how to teach and design educational programs around this concept, and CB participatory research:

*A Guide to Community-Responsive Models in Health Professions Education

*AAHE/CCPH Monograph on Service-Learning in Medical Education: Creating Community-Responsive Physicians

*Partnership Matters e-newsletter is published biweekly and is a wonderful resource for grants, conference announcements and other notices of interest to practitioners and academics involved in community-based primary care

For publications:  

http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph/guide.html#Publications  

We maintain a syllabi directory on our website - many of the courses have to do with community-based primary care, community-based public health and community-based participatory research:

For syllabi:

http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph/servicelearningres.html#Syllabi  

CORE Group: Child Health and Development Database

Contact: Julia Ross (jross@worldvision.org) 
 

www.coregroup.org (click on the database icon in the upper right corner of the home page)

Houses more than 400 English and foreign language documents, tools and materials created by NGOs to improve and scale up child health and development programs.  Search the database by country, subject area, type of material, language, target audience, and publication date. New submission instructions are available in English, French and Spanish. Search instructions are expected to be available in French and Spanish in early 2005. CORE encourages local NGOs to add their materials.

George Washington University Medical School, Washington DC

Contact:  Sandy Hoar (shoar@mfa.gwu.edu)

on-line courses:  http://prometheus.gwu.edu) (sign on as new student)

* ISCOPES - add course 1360, password pcuseh (or www.gwu.edu/^iscopes)

* CBPHC Mainero (Mexico) – add course 52664 password mexico and with local AHECs

Hesperian Foundation (www.hesperian.org), Berkeley, California

“Helping Health Workers Learn,” “Where There Is No Doctor,”  “Where Women Have No Doctor,” The Women’s Health Exchange newsletter (also in Spanish)

Medical Mission Sisters (www.medicalmissionsisters.org), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Contact:  Jean Mouch (mouchjf@yahoo.com)

World Health Organization -- IMCI (Integrated Management of Childhood Illness); www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/publications

TRAINING PROGRAMS -- U.S.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)

Contact:  Sarena Seifer  (sarena@u.washington.edu)

Annual conference always features tracks of sessions on community-based health care, partnerships for improving community health, etc. (Oct. 6-10, 2004 “Overcoming Health Disparities”

Two service-learning institutes annually (introductory in June, advanced in Jan. or Feb.) to help equip faculty with skills to develop community-based courses in their curriculum. 

Elim Bible Institute -- Missions & International Community Health

7245 College St.,  Lima, NY 14485;    Tel. 585-582-1230

Email:  admissions@elim.edu;    Web:  www.elim.edu

Missions & International Community Health  (2-yr associate diploma) including Community Health Assessment and Development

Global Health Action

PO Box 15086,  Atlanta, GA 30333;    Tel. 404-634-5748

Email:  tfh@globalhealthaction.org;    Web:  www.globalhealthaction.org

Initiatives:  Leadership & Management Training, HIV/AIDS, Women’s Health & Reproductive Health, Primary Health Care, Second Generation Organization (India, Haiti)

Course Content:  Foundations, Leadership, Management, Effective Communication Skills, Transformation for Health, Video Work & Presentation Skills, Health Action Project Plan; Courses in Atlanta, also custom-designed courses in US and worldwide

King College -- Graduate Studies in Global Health

1350 King College Rd,  Bristol, TN 37620;  Tel.  423-652-4767, 800-362-0014

Email:  jacharles@king.edu;    Web:  www.king.edu

Dan Fountain, director of Center for Global Health

Certificate Program,  May 12-June 20 (3 two-week workshops) including Community Health and Training Health Care Personnel; 3-day seminars, including Community Health Among the Poor, Community Health in a Rural Setting

Medical Ambassadors International

PO Box 576645,  Modesto, CA  95357;    Tel. 209-524-0600

Email:  maiche@pc-intouch.com or Helen@MedicalAmbassadors.org  

Web:  www.MedicalAmbassadors.org

Stan Rowland, Community Health Education/Evangelism

Seminars:  Vision, Training of Trainers I/II/III, others

Topics:  Entering the Community, Social Care Topics, Community Development, Micro-Enterprise, Medical Topics, Children’s Lesson Plans, Perinatal Care Topics, Spiritual Care

Seminars conducted in U.S. and throughout the world

Future Generations -- Franklin, WV

Masters of Arts Program in Applied Community Change and Conservation (www.future.org)  (for catalogue and application)

SIFAT (Servants in Faith & Technology) – Lineville, AL  (www.sifat.org)

Contact:  Kathy Bryson (brysonk@sifat.org)

Certificate in Community Development and Appropriate Technologies -- 10-week session on community development from a Christian perspective with appropriate technologies as tools.  Students learn to be facilitators for total, integrated development for individuals and communities.

TRAINING PROGRAMS -- OVERSEAS

Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health & Community Medicine

Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Teaching Programs

PO Box 12272 Jerusalem 91120 Israel;    Tel:  972 2 6777119   Fax: 972 2 643 1086

Jaime Gofin, Director     Email:  jaime@md2.huji.ac.il  

Jamkhed Institute for Training & Research in Community-Based Primary Health Care

Diploma in Community-Based Health and Development, Jamkhed, India (www.jamkhed.org)

Short courses developed for individual interest, internships, medical elective 1-month course for medical & allied health students; courses for anyone (e.g. villagers, field workers, national & international NGOs and govt programs); US contact:  Connie Gates, jif@jamkhed.org, Tel: 919-270-5977

Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA)

Bangalore, India; Email: sochara@vsnl.com; Web: www.geocities.com/sochara2000

Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development (TICH) in Africa

Kisumu, Kenya

Certificate, Diploma and Masters in Community Health and Development

Dan Kaseje, director  (US contacts – Jack Bryant, Stan Foster, Henry Mosley, Carl Taylor)

                  PO Box 2224, Kisumu          PO Box 60827, Nairobi

Tel.            254-(0)35-23972/44853      254-(0)2-441046/445297

Email:       tich@swftkisumu.com          tichnbi@net2000ke.com

Specialized centers of TICH:

Centre for Community-Based Healing & Development -- with courses in Community-Based Education & Leadership Development and in Building Healthy, Healing Communities.

Centre for Combating Ill-Health – with courses in Community-Based Management of Chronic and Infectious Diseases

Centre for Management and Enterprise Development and Business Initiatives

Centre for Research in Health and Development

Centre for Environment, Technology and Industrial Development