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2016EPES FOUNDATION is pleased to announce its 7th International Training Course

on Popular Education in Health

Sharing 33 Years of Work for Dignity and Justice in HealthCourse on Participatory and Community-based Strategies in Health

  When:  January 11 to 22, 2016

(Arrive in Chile January 10)

 Where: Santiago and Concepción, Chile

Hands-On Learning to Promote and Expand the

Right to Health:

• Learn and apply popular education methods forhealth promotion.

  • Learn how to build community health teams.

  • Partner with local organizations.

  • Explore the role of faith-based communities inhealth and healing.

  • Identify the social determinants of the obesityepidemic: alternatives and challenges forfighting it. Experiences from Latin America.

EPES (Educación Popular en Salud)Inspired by a vision of quality and fairness in health forthe poor, EPES is an independent, community-basednon-profit foundation in Santiago, Chile. Founded in1982 as a project of the Evangelical Lutheran Church inChile (IELCH), EPES has grown from a small emergency-response team during the military dictatorship to a leaderof community mobilization for health services, awarenessand empowerment. Today, EPES annually reaches over145,000 women and their families in poor communitieswith innovative strategies and tools for collective action.

STUDY IN CHILE The 12-day course takes place in Santiago, the Chilean capiat the foot of the Andes, and in Concepción, a major industrcenter in southern Chile. Here you will get to know Chile frothe vantage point of the urban poor and the fight for the rigto health in the context of political transitions, health sectprivatization, far-reaching socio-cultural change, and citizemobilization. In the first six courses 110 people from countries participated.

 

Special workshop:

The deterioration ofour nutritional status

and the collapse of

 public health systems

 Alejandro Calvillo Unn, a sociologist with a PhD in philosophy

from Barcelona University, is also a graduate of the Program for

Higher Study on the Environment and Sustainable Development

from El Colegio de Mexico. In 2006 he founded the organization

Consumer Power  that has launched campaigns to address the

obesity and diabetes epidemics that are causing the collapse of

 public health systems of Mexico and other nations.The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) invited him

to participate in a group of experts on food and soft drink

advertising that targets children. The group developed a

guide distributed throughout Latin America. In Mexico he is

a well-known advocate of regulatory policy to fight obesity

that recently became law, including: taxes on sugar-based

beverages, regulating food and soft drink ads aimed at children

and in the schools, in addition to introducing labels on the front

of packaging to advise consumer of product ingredients.

INTERNATIONAL GUEST LECTURER

 Alejandro Calvillo Unn

EPES Foundation | Sant iago, Chi le | S i t io Web: www.epes.c l

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COURSE CONTENTSPopular Education

- History, principles, methodologies

  - Popular education techniques

Popular Education and social determinants ofhealth (SDH)  - Convergence between popular education and social

determinants of health

- Exercise to apply the social determinants of health

approach

Nutritional deterioration and the collapse ofpublic health systems  - Social conditions that cause overweight, obesity, and

malnutrition.

  - Alternatives for changing the obesogenicenvironment and recovering nutritional health.

Gender, health and public policy- Concepts of gender and their impact on health

  - Tools for gender-based planning from the contextof social determinants of health, human rights andequity

EPES Health Team Training Model- Stages in the process developed by EPES for training

health promoters

- Group reflection on the way the methodologyconveys the principles and values of populareducation.

Participatory Assessments: Exploring designs  - What is a Participatory Assessment?

  - Techniques and tools for holding a participatorycommunity assessment in health.

Learn by Playing

  - Experience and analyze EPES educational games

Faith communities and the struggle for health  - HIV-AIDS, diversity and identity

Health Campaigns and Actions

- Tools for carrying out health actions and campaigns

Participatory evaluation  - Concept and techniques of participatory evaluations

FACULTY The multidisciplinary team of EPES health educators, lby EPES founder Karen Anderson, M.Ed., MPH (USA/ELCGlobal Mission), will be joined by the following gueinstructors:

Rev. Lisandro Orlov (Argentina), Theologian, Pastor

the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of ArgentinFormer regional coordinator of the Lutheran WoFederation HIV/AIDS campaign.

Dr. Maria Isabel Matamala (Chile), Physician, Leadof the feminist movement for women’s health. A pacoordinator of the Pan American Health Organizatio“Equity, Gender and Health Reform” program.

 The Master’s Program in Public Health of Waterloo Univers(Canada) will grant post-graduate academic credit fparticipation in the EPES International Training Course.

The International Training Course in Popular Educatioin Health is co-sponsored by the University of Chile PubHealth School.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Undergraduate agraduate students in public health, social work, humanitistudents, and gender studies, popular educators, teachechurch workers and social justice activists. Cour

conducted in Spanish.

COURSE FEE: US$2,200 includes lodging, meamaterials, and transportation within Chile (airfare to/froChile not included). Special rates for Chileans. Limitnumber of participants. Application deadline October 12015. Course includes on-site lodging.

On Saturday, January 23 the group will visit the coast ahave lunch at the beach (optional, additional cost of US$7

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please contact Angelina Jara:epes2016@gmail.com

EPES International Training Course on

Popular Education in Health

Santiago, Chile

Phone: (56-22) 548-7617

EPES Foundation / www.epes.cl

EPES thanks the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) for its support for this training course.