KARACHI: Research training

Published May 18, 2002

KARACHI, May 17: A five-day training programme aimed at developing research capability among health care professionals will begin at a local hotel on May 20.

As many as 25 health care professionals from various parts of the country will attend the moot.

The training is being organized collaboratively by AIDS International Training and Research Programme of the Fogarty International, University of Alabama, Sindh AIDS Control Programme, Microbiology Department of the University of Karachi, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, and the National Research Institute for Fertility Care.

The training faculty comprises Prof Sten Vermund, Sibylle Kristensen, Dr Franklin White, Dr Sarwar Zubari, Dr Shahana Urooj Kazmi, Dr Syed Mujeeb, Dr Arshad Altaf and Dr Sharaf Ali Shah.

Sindh Minister for Finance Dr Abdul hafeez Shaikh will be the chief guest.

The participants will be apprised of the importance of analyzing research data to carry out local research and surveillance of infectious diseases and epidemics.—APP

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