Developing Public Health Management Training Capacity in Nicaragua

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Elena McEwan, CARE International; Mary J. Conway, CARE International; David L. Bull, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Michael D. Malison, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2001-10
• Publisher: American Public Health Association
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © American Journal of Public Health 2001
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.91.10.1586
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: American Journal of Public Health
• ISSN: 0090-0036
• Volume: 91
• Issue: 10
• Start Page: 1586
• End Page: 1588
• Keywords: CARE; Nicaragua; troubleshoot; in-country trainers; healthcare managment; training; public health
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Health Care Management; Health Sciences, Public Health

Abstract

The Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Initiative in Nicaragua is distinctive in its focus on developing a cadre of in-country trainers whose aim is to equip frontline public health managers with widely applicable tools and techniques to assist them in identifying and solving implementation problems. Since 1999, 137 trainees—37% more than originally planned—have demonstrated competence by completing and presenting applied management projects. Nineteen professors from the preventive medicine faculty at the Autonomous University of Nicaragua also have been trained. The country office now has a cadre of seasoned trainers who can meet the ongoing management training needs of CARE staff and their counterparts in the Ministry of Health and in other nongovernmental organizations.