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Courses related to specific infections or areas of expertise (including epidemiology, microbiology)
February 2012
Travel and Expedition Medicine Course
Date: 6-10 February 2012
Location:
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Website/further information:
Click here for more info
Update on Antibiotic Resistance - from Laboratory to Clinical Practice
Date: 10-11 February 2012
Location:
Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Website/further information:
Click here for more info
March 2012
Malaria Experimental Genetics
Date: 4-10 March 2012
Location:
Leeds
Website/further information:
Click here for more info
BSMM Diagnostic Medical Mycology Course
Date: 19-23 March 2012
Location:
Leeds
Website/further information:
http://www.bsmm.org/conferences.asp
Healthcare Infection Society & British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Spring Meeting 2012 -
Multi-drug resistant Gramm negative infections

Date: 20th March 2012
Location: Royal College of Physicians, London
Website/further information: Click here

May 2012

Virus Discovery in the Clinical Setting
Date: 13-18 May 2012
Location: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Website/further information: Click here

Molecular Tools and Epidemiology of Tuberculosis
Date: 21st May - 1st June 2012
Location: Paris, France
Website/further information: http://www.pasteur.fr/ip/easysite/pasteur/en/teaching/biology-of-
micro-organisms/molecular-tools-and-epidemiology-of-tuberculosis

July 2012

Epidemiological Evaluation of Vaccines: Efficacy, Safety and Policy
Date: 9-20 July 2012
Location:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Website/further information:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/cpd/seev.html
Modeling Dengue Fever Dynamics and Control
Date: 23-24 July 2012
Location:
NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, USA
Website/further information:
http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_dengue

October 2012

Working with Parasite Database Resources
Date: 21-26 October 2012
Location:
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge
Website/further information:
Click here for the Wellcome website.

No specified date

Diploma in Hospital Infection Control (DipHIC)
Date: Throughout the academic year
Location:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Website/further information:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/short/shic.html
Identibac Training Courses (Identibac is a range of new bacterial genotyping
kits from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency)
Date: Two day course, typically held monthly. Ad hoc courses can be arranged.
Location:
Weybridge, Surrey (but can be held in other locations)
Website/further information:
http://www.identibac.com/training.php
Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Date: Annually, January for three months
Location:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Website/further information:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/short/stmh.html
Graduate Certificate in Infection Prevention & Control
Date: contact university.
Location:
University of Leeds
Website/further information:
Contact b.a.gallacher@leeds.ac.uk
Immunisation and Vaccination Update
Date: contact CPD unit for forthcoming dates(see website)
Location:
Faculty of Health, Birmingham
Website/further information:
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/health/
Tuberculosis: Diploma Level Module
Date: via distance learning
Location:
Education for Health, Warwick
Website/further information:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/
Paediatric HIV in Europe
Date: via distance learning / online
Location:
Tr@inforPedHIV 2008
Website/further information:
http://www.pentatrials.org/other.htm
Safety of Medicines (introductory and advanced modules)
Date: via distance learning
Location:
Drug Safety Research Unit
Website/further information:
http://www.dsru.org/learningmodule/index.php
International Health Management modules
Date: various, see website
Location:
Imperial College London
Website/further information:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/cpd/courses/subject/healthmanagement
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Courses related to statistics / modelling / analysis
February 2012
Dealing with Missing Data
Date: 1-2 February 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Date: 13-24 February 2012
Location:
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Website/further information:
Click here for the Wellcome website
Introduction to Logistics Regression
Date: 15 February 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
Introduction to Bayesian analysis
Date: 22 February 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
Data Mining Techniques
Date: 22-23 February 2012
Location:
Lancaster University
Website/further information:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fas/cpd/statistics/courses/Data-Mining-Techniques
Getting Started with Stats
Date: 22 February 2012
Location:
University of Hertfordshire
Website/further information:
Click here for more information.
STATA course
Date: 28-29 February 2012
Location:
Lancaster University
Website/further information:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fas/cpd/statistics/courses/STATA
March 2012
Intermediate SPSS for Windows (SPSS II)
Date: 7-8 March 2012
Location:
Lancaster University
Website/further information:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fas/cpd/statistics/courses/Intermediate-SPSS-for-Windows-(SPSS-II)
Structural Equation Modelling
Date: 21-22 March 2012
Location:
Lancaster University
Website/further information:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fas/cpd/statistics/courses/Structural-Equation-Modelling
Logistic Regression & Survival Analysis Using Stata
Date: 28 Marchl 2012
Location:
Imperial College London
Website/further information:
Click here for more info.
Sample Size Estimates and Power Calculations
Date: 29 March 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
April 2012
Introduction to Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
Date: 26 - 27 April 2012
Location:
Imperial College London
Website/further information:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/stathelp/courses/introductiontodesignandanalysisofclinicaltrials
Research Methods and Statistics
Date: 30 April - 4 May 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
May 2012
Dealing with Missing Data
Date: 9-10 May 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
Introduction to Statistics Using Stata
Date: 15 May 2012
Location:
Imperial College London
Website/further information:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/stathelp/courses/statacourses/introductiontostata
Introduction to survival analysis
Date: 24 May 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
June 2012
Statistical Methods for Ordered Categorical Data
Date: 11-12 June 2012
Location:
Lancaster University
Website/further information:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fas/cpd/statistics/courses/Statistical-Methods-for-Ordered-Categorical-Data
Starter Course in Statistics
Date: 13-14 June 2012
Location:
University of Hertfordshire
Website/further information:
Click here for more information.
Sample Size Estimates and Power Calculations
Date: 14 June 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
Introduction to Bayesian analysis
Date: 20 June 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
Data Management & Statistical Analysis Using Stata
Date: 20-21 June 2012
Location:
Imperial College London
Website/further information:
Click here for more info.
Essential Data Analysis
Date: 20-21 June 2012
Location:
University of Hertfordshire
Website/further information:
Click here for more info
July 2012
Higher Course in Statistics
Date: 4-5 July 2012
Location:
University of Hertfordshire
Website/further information:
Click here for more information.
Introduction to Multilevel Modelling
Date: 11 July 2012
Location:
University of Hertfordshire
Website/further information:
Click here for more information.
Analysing a 2x2 table
Date: 12 July 2012
Location:
Institute of Child Health, UCL, London
Website/further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/education-ich/shortcourses/statistical-courses/future-courses
August 2012
Introduction to Statistics Using Stata
Date: 1 August 2012
Location:
Imperial College London
Website/further information:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/stathelp/courses/statacourses/introductiontostata
Data Management & Statistical Analysis Using Stata
Date: 22-23 August 2012
Location:
Imperial College London
Website/further information:
Click here for more info.

No specified date

Data analysis and statistics
Date: various, contact City University
Location:
London
Website/further information:
http://www.city.ac.uk/communityandhealth/cpd/modules/SGM205.html
Courses on Stata, Minitab, SPSS, R, Matlab
Date: various courses on various dates
Location:
Run by Statistical Advisory Service, Imperial College London
Website/further information:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/stathelp/courses
Epidemiology, Statistics and Health Information
Date: distance learning course
Location:
Run by the University of Birmingham
Website/further information:
http://pcpoh.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/programmes/mph/coremodules/phes.htm
Medical Statistics Using SPSS: an Introductory Course (online course)
Date: online course
Location:
Run by the University of Sheffield
Website/further information:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/spss/
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Courses related to governance, best practice, systematic reviews and clinical trials

January 2012

Comprehensive Systematic Review Training
Date: 9-13 January 2012
Location:
University of West London, Brentford campus
Website/further information:
Contact Meg Morse meg.morse@uwl.ac.uk   Tel:  0208 209 4145
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