Short Course on Gender, Health and Development in Kerala

[Guest guest]

Call for applications

A short course on ‘Gender, Health and Development’

will be conducted by SAKHI, Women’s Resource Centre,

Trivandrum, Kerala between August 12-27, 2001. This

course has been developed in response to the need

among development workers, social-science researchers

in health and those working on health issues within

the non-governmental and the governmental sector for

a training programme that goes beyond introducing basic

gender concepts, to applying these in the context

of research, policies and programmes.

The faculty for the course are Aleyamma Vijayan,

Director, SAKHI; Lakshmi Lingam, Reader and coordinator

of Centre for Health Studies, TISS, Mumbai;

Nalini Nayak, Independent researcher and activist,

Trivandrum; Mala Ramanathan, Associate Professor,

AMCHSS, SCTIMST; Padmini Swaminathanm

Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies,

Chennai; Renu Khanna, SAHAJ and Women’s Health Training,

Research and Advocacy Centre, Baroda; Shagufa

Kapadia, Pricipal Investigator, Women’s Health

Training Research and Advocay Centre, Women’s Studies

Research Centre, MS University, Baroda; and T.K.Sundari

Ravindran, RUWSEC, Chengalpattu.

The course will be conducted in English. A fees of

Rs.11,000 is being charged towards course material

and boarding and lodging. Participants will have to

make their own travel arrangements. A limited

number of scholarships are available and participants

are requested to apply requesting for these if they

will not be able to obtain support from their parent

institution or any other agency.

Men and women who have responsibility and/or experience

in training, research or action.. Applicants must

be graduates in any discipline with fluency in

English, with several years of service ahead of

them. Men are encouraged to apply.

ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE:

Madhavi Panda

coordinator, Short Course on Gender, Health and

Development

SAKHI Women’s Resource Centre

Convent Road, Trivandrum- 695 001, Kerala

India

Phone: 91-471- 46 22 51

E-Mail: sakhi@...