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Tag Archives: Africa
MBE for Dr Basiro Davey
Congratulations to Dr Basiro Davey, Deputy Director HEAT (Ethiopia), and Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences who has been made an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to health and higher education. Basiro joined the OU in 1976 after completing a … Continue reading
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New HEAT Website goes Live!
I am very pleased to announce the launch of our new HEAT website at: http://www.open.ac.uk/heat. Please pass this link on to interested colleagues and institutions. The new look website will carry the latest information about the programme, keep you up to … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Distance learning, e-learning, Education, Health, HEAT websites, new, OERs, Open University, training
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Joan turns up the HEAT
Three times Grammy nominated singer songwriter Joan Armatrading lends her voice to the new HEAT DVD. Joan is pictured here with the HEAT Director and Programme Coordinator, Lesley-Anne Long and Alison Robinson, after the recent voice-over recording. The DVD explains how … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Alison Robinson, DVD, Health, HEAT websites, Joan Armatrading, Lesley-Anne Long
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The Tigray Region Pilot
In early April the pilot for the Level-IV Health Extension Upgrading Programme started in the Tigray Region. Since then the 44 students in the pilot cohort have completed the Antenatal Care (ANC) Module and are about to start their 15 days … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, AMREF, Education, Ethiopia, Health, HEAT websites, pilot, training
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Nutrition Education and Training
The Open University and the University of Southampton are currently exploring a potential partnership, to create a nutrition programme for health workers, based on open educational resources that can be delivered as face to face, distance learning or e-learning in … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, e-learning, Education, HEAT websites, Nutrition, training, University of Southampton
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OER Africa Conference 16-18th May
Ali Wyllie, HEAT Lead eLearning advisor, attended the 3-day OER Africa Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, organised by SAIDE (the South African Institute of Distance Education). The overall purpose of the conference was to determine how best to take forward the OER agenda in Africa. … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Education, Health, HEAT websites, Kenya, Nairobi, OER Africa, Open University, SAIDE
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BBC features HEAT programme
Programme four from the Health Check team focusses on Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme and went to air on Wednesday 13th April on the BBC World Service. The programme is available as a podcast on the BBC iPlayer. Health Check’s Claudia Hammond reports from … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Ethiopia, Health, HealthCheck, HEAT websites, media, radio
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Dr Tedros Adhanom Receives Humanitarian Award
Dr Tedros Adhanom, Minister of Health for Ethiopia received the 2011 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award at a ceremony held in Pentagon City, Arlington Virginia, USA, on 22 March 2011. The award was presented by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter … Continue reading
OU and AMREF to address health needs in Africa
The Open University and the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Directorate in Kenya are delighted to announce that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together for the development and implementation of health education and training for mid-level and community health workers in Africa. Continue reading
Health Check – Medical Brain Drain
The Open University in partnership with the BBC World Service, present a series of special editions of Health Check, the weekly round-up of global health stories and topical issues in medicine. The series is presented by Claudia Hammond. Episode 3 … Continue reading
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