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After going through the course, Fellows will be able to:

Develop appreciation for health promotion principles, practice and methods

• Define health promotion, its scope and range
• Describe health promotion principles, practice, methods, strategies and trends and their role in public health and health systems
• Apply health communication, advocacy, social mobilization, social marketing, and policy-based approaches

Demonstrate leadership in health promotion

• Reflect on their own leadership qualities, styles and roles
• Enhance personal leadership style and identify areas for improvement
• Demonstrate intermediate level skills in effective communication and building relationships
• Describe how to develop sustainable partnerships and healthy alliances to advance health promotion

Demonstrate management skills in health promotion

• Demonstrate skills in needs assessment, prioritizing, target setting, designing and implementing interventions, and monitoring and evaluation of health promotion programmes
• Describe how governance influences attainment of health promotion goals
• Identify the variety of health promotion infrastructures for building capacity and multi-sectoral collaboration
• Describe financing options and fund management approaches to advance health promotion activities
• Utilize quality improvement tools in implementing a health promotion project

Develop and implement a health promotion project

• Identify specific challenges of health promotion in their country using a capacity mapping users’ manual and tool
• Prioritize areas for intervention through a collaborative process involving colleagues and mentors
• Plan, implement and evaluation a health promotion project that addresses one of the priority areas/needs
• Define project objectives, priority actions and specific project deliverables
• Describe activities toward the implementation of the project plan
• Describe plans, tools and results of the project evaluation