Training and Continuing Education   

Workshops
Training Activities
Public Lectures

 Training Unit Activities

The Institute’s mission includes working towards instituting the principle of continuing education among health care providers, in addition to offering specific short training courses in the various disciplines of public health. Furthermore, the Institute hosts various other activities aiming at human resource development, and providing a platform for debate and discussion of important local and international community and public health issues.  Such activities include: 

• Offering short certificate and non-certificate level training courses

• Providing continuing education schemes to alumni

• Conducting regular community and public health seminars/lectures where both international and local experts and professionals participate in presentations and discussions

• Disseminating ICPH research findings to the local community through periodic meetings and consultation sessions.

Participants/target groups include professionals who work in various areas of community and public health from the different governmental institutions and organizations, NGOs, as well as UNRWA and private sector providers.

Pre-registration is required for participation. If you are interested in future workshops, training, lectures please contact: icph@birzeit.edu.

Included are selected activities that ICPH has conducted only over the past years:
 

Workshops 2001-2008

Selected Workshops

Lecturer/s

Target group/s

 Year

Midwives Practices Review

Sahar Bitar-Hasan, MSc

2008

Schoolo Health Committees / ICPH

psychosocial health unit team

Analysis of the Palestinian and Health Services data

Sir Iain Chalmers, Editor of the James Lind Library - UK (www.jameslindlibrary.org)

Evaluation of CBR Project

Peter Coleridge, review consultant, and Dr Will Boyce, Director of the Social and EvaluationGroup, Queens University

Monitoring Midwives Practices

Sahar Bitar-Hasan, MSc

Dissemination of need assessment results for Ramallah hospital women's health

Sahar Bitar-Hasan, MSN

Postpartum care in hospital setting

Sahar Bitar-Hasan, MSN

Food sanitation and safety in restaurants

Issam Al-Khatib, PhD

Health education skills for postpartum nurse and midwives

Sahar Bitar-Hasan, MSN

Rational use of medicine: knowledge + practice affecting mobile teams

Rana Khatib, PhD

Amal Daoud, MPH

Medical waste management + training

Issam Al-Khatib, PhD

Public health and stress in a multicultural perspective.  
 

John Macdonald,

Prof. Primary Health Care

Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre
University of Western Sydney

Audit and record keeping for midwives
 

Medical Waste Management in Hospitals
 

Food Sanitation & Safety in Restaurants & School Cafeterias (Environmental Health Unit)

Building on Skills. B. Western Model of Counseling
(Environmental Health Unit)

Dissemination of Amniotomy Study
(Women’s Unit)

Swimming Pools Design, Operation & Maintenance
(Field Training)
 

Pinhole Photography Workshop
(Environment Unit)

Research Results: Child Abuse & Neglect Services

Medical Waste Management in Hospitals

Implementing Evidence-based Maternity Care

(Women’s Health Unit)

Laura Wick, Sahar Hassan,

Kyllike Christensson, Prof

Session Chair, Anna Nordfjell

Head / senior Midwives from West Bank, Bank making facilities & Midwifery teachers

Complementary Medicine / Homeopathy Meeting

(Teaching Unit)

Murielle Koks-Bosch

&

Wafa Abuelkhair Mataria, BPharm

Researchers & Health Professionals

Design, Operation & Construction of Public Swimming Pools

(Environmental Health unit)

 Issam al-Khatib, PhD
ICPH, Birzeit University

Engineers in Nablus, Tulkarm, Bethlehem, Hebron

Breastfeeding Workshop

(Women’s Unit, 3 times for different groups)

Laura Wick
Sahar Hassan (RN,MSN)
Rehab Sandooka (MPH,International lactation consultant)
Dina Ismael (SMW, MSc.)

Midwifes, Nurses Al Makassed Hospital & Red Crescent Hospital

Medical waste management in hospitals

Nursing Students & Teachers, Nablus, Hebron

Perspectives for Including Psycho-social Health Component into CBR

(Psycho-Social, Environmental Health Unit)

Rita Giacaman, PharmD, MPhil (ICPH)

Ghada Harami (Diakonia)

Allam Jarrar (PMRC)

CBR rehab. workers

ICPH staff

MOE and NGOs working in field

Design, Operation & Construction of Public Swimming Pools (Environmental Health Unit) 

Issam al-Khatib, PhD
ICPH, Birzeit University

Engineers in WB districts

The Nominal Group Technique

(Teaching Unit)

Graham Watt, Professor of
General Practice and Primary Care Division of Community-Based Sciences
University of Glasgow

Health Organization working in research and teaching

Mental Health

John Macdonald,

Prof. Primary Health Care

Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre
University of Western Sydney

Derek Summerfield, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London 

Local and international NGOs and concerned Ministries

Introduction to Research Methods & Types of Study Design

Hanan Abdel-Rahim Halabi, PhD

ICPH, Birzeit University

Midwives and gynecologic obstetricians

Food Sanitation & Safety in Restaurants & School Cafeterias

Issam al-Khatib, PhD

ICPH, Birzeit University

Health inspectors in the West Bank

Dissemination / Consultation Workshop of Psycho-social Study

Rita Giacaman, PharmD, MPhil

ICPH, Birzeit University

Naimeh Baidoun, MA

Center for Continuing Education

Birzeit University

Jane Lindsay
 

Policy makers, directors from the Ministry of Education and various NGO stake holders

Medical Waste Management in Hospitals and Clinics

Medical Waste Management in Dental Clinics and Hospitals

Issam al-Khatib, PhD

ICPH, Birzeit University
Rana Darwish, DDS, MPH

Students in nursing, midwifery, lab technology, from different colleges and universities in the West Bank.
Health directors, laboratory technicians, nurses, and dentists

Guidelines for the Construction, Operation and Licensing of Public Swimming Pools

Issam al-Khatib, PhD

ICPH, Birzeit University

Health inspectors from the MOH, municipalities, and engineering association in the WB

The Prevention & Treatment of Psychological Trauma

William J. Thomson, PhD

Michigan University-USA

Counselors, social workers from various NGOs and ministries

Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience

William J. Thomson, PhD

Michigan University-USA

Counselors, social workers, and policy makers from various NGOs and ministries.

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Training Activities 2001-2008

Selected Training Activities

Lecturer/s

Target group/s

Year

Computer Training(Women’s Health Unit: 9 sessions, certificate level)

Lina Ghoury, BSc, Kawthar Abu Khalil, BA

Health Economics and Management

Awad Mataria, PhD, Rana Khatib, PhD

Qualitative Analysis and Focus Groups

Viet Nguyen-Gillham, PhD, Ghada Naser, MA 

Analysis of health and demographic surveys in Palestine

Ulla Larsen, Associate Prof. MaryLand University.

Niveen Abu-Remeileh, PhD

Swimming pools operation + design

Issam Al-Khatib, PhD

Training CBR workers on "focus group discussions"

Ghada Naser, MA

Introduction to statistical analysis using SPSS

Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, PhD
Amal Daoud, MPH

Factor analysis training

Harry Shanon, PhD
(Visiting trainer from USA)

Advanced SPSS training

Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, PhD

Principles of data analysis

Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, PhD
 

How to conduct an industrial hazardous waste survey

Reem Musleh, PhD
Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, PhD

How to conduct industrial hazardous waste survey?)

Reem Musleh, PhD
Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, PhD
 

Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)

Yoke Van-Mullen, MPH
Susan Mitwalli
 

Introduction to health programs evaluation

Abdullatif Husseini, PhD

Training on population and development: theory and practice.

Ian Timaeus, PhD
Tim Dyson, PhD
Ann Scott, MD
(Visiting trainers from the UK)
 

Statistical Analysis of Demographic & Health Survey Data

Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, PhD & Amal Daoud, MPH

Computer & Internet Training

Lina Ghoury, BSc

Suzan Mitwalli, BSc

Kawther Abu Khalil, BA

Saeda Baba
 

Computer Training

Husam Abu Harb

Lina Ghoury

Kawther Abu Khalil Saida Baba

ICPH, Birzeit University
 

Medical Waste Management
in Hospitals
 

Issam Khatib,  PhD

An Introduction to Health Programs/Project Evaluation

Abdullatif Husseini, PhD

Hanan Halabi, PhD

Rita Giacaman, PharmD, MPhil

Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, PhD

Muhammad Duraidi
 

Computer Training: Level 2

(Environmental Health Unit: 8 sessions, certificate level)

Husam Abu Harb

Lina Ghoury

Suzan Mitwalli

Kawther Abu Khalil Saida Baba

ICPH, Birzeit University
 

School principals – Ministry of Education and Higher Education

Computer Training

(Women’s Health Unit: 8 sessions, certificate level)

Husam Abu Harb

Lina Ghoury

Kawther Abu Khalil Saida Baba

ICPH, Birzeit University
 

Midwifes from PRCS, Ibn Sina College, Ramallah & al-Makased Hospitals

Introduction to computer  skills and internet for midwives (8 sessions)

Husam Abu Harb

Lina Ghoury

ICPH, Birzeit University
 

Midwives from al-Maqased Hospital, PRCS, Ramallah Hospital, Ibn Sina College

Statistical analysis for epidemiological data

ICPH in cooperation with the University of Oslo:

Stigum Hein, PhD

Ragnhild Hovengen 
 

Health professionals involved in data analysis

Rational Drug Use

Rana Khatib, PhD

Amal Daoud, MPH

ICPH, Birzeit University

Physicians,  pharmacists, nurses, village health workers from NGO primary care clinics in WB & GS

Amniotomy Intervention Study

Nahed Mikki, MD

Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, PhD ICPH, Birzeit University

Midwives, doctors and residents at Makassed Hospital

Computer Skills and Internet

Husam Abu Harb, MSc

Lina Ghoury, BS

ICPH, Birzeit University

Min. of Education: school principals, counselors

Min. of Health: Ibn Sina College teachers,

Makassed Hospital nursing team

Midwifery Training

Nahed Mikki, MD

ICPH, Birzeit University

Vartoughy Koukian, RN
 

Midwives in NGO and private hospitals maternity wards

Mental Health:

CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management)

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)

Mike Murphy

Univ. of Michigan-USA

EMDR team

Counselors, social workers from ministries and NGOs.

Mental Health:

CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management)

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)

Nahed Mikki, MD

ICPH, Birzeit University

Counselors at Birzeit University

Improving Midwifery Care During Normal Childbirth

Laura Wick, MA

ICPH, Birzeit University

Amal Abu-Awad

Sahar Hasan

Vartoughy Koukeyan
 

Midwives, nurses who work in delivery from different local hospitals (Gov., NGO, UNRWA)

Management of Solid Waste

Reem Musleh, MSc

ICPH, Birzeit University

Personnel from municipalities, district directorates, and  village councils

Statistics and Epidemiology

Faisal Awartani, PhD

Hanan Abdel-Rahim Halabi, PhD

ICPH, Birzeit University
 

Lab technologists working in the MOH Central Public Health Laboratory.

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Public Lectures for 2003-2008

Selected Public Lecture/s

Presenter / Organization

Year

Dr. Lars Jerden, Epidemiology and Public Health Services, Umea University/Sweden

Ms.Reema Al-Keilani/MOE, general director of schools counseling

Ms. Suha Kan'an, PCBS