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Mahidol University in Thailand and Carolina recently began offering the first course of a regional reproductive-health training program that uses Internet technologies. This allows Southeast Asian public health professionals to upgrade their skills without taking long leaves of absence.
The course offered by The Asia Reproductive Health Graduate Education and Training (TARGET) program was launched with students from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and the United States.
The program brings together Mahidol, one of the premier schools of public health in Asia, and Carolina, which houses one of the top public health schools in the United States. The TARGET program focuses on health issues concerning reproduction, including HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, birth spacing, adolescent pregnancy and safe motherhood.
The month-long course will pioneer the use of the Internet combined with intensive short courses for public health education in Southeast Asia.
Participants who complete the course will receive a joint certificate in reproductive health from Mahidol and Carolina. Plans are under way to allow participants to collect credits that can lead to a master's of public health degree.
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