Country: Australia
Registration deadline: 14 Oct 2019
Starting date: 19 Oct 2019
Ending date: 25 Oct 2019
In any humanitarian crisis, communities need access to safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and hygiene. Water borne diseases are major killers in disasters and complex emergencies, where large populations are displaced and/or moving or where local water infrastructure has been destroyed by an earthquake, typhoon or bombing. Effective intervention can reduce the spread of disease, alleviate suffering and ultimately save lives. When local emergency response workers understand how to apply basic Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) strategies, more lives can be saved. This course introduces participants to the WASH sector in emergencies and the international SPHERE standards that apply as well as how the sector is impacted and supported by other sectors in an international emergency operation.
This course is an ideal introduction to public health engineering in emergencies for aid and humanitarian workers and volunteers of all disciplines, levels and experience. It suits environmental and public health engineers and particularly those whose technical skills are more oriented toward large-scale urban systems, who want to adapt their skills to humanitarian emergency work; public and environmental health specialists who would be involved in emergency responses in Australia and the region would also benefit as well as anyone who has already worked or volunteered in emergency relief and wants to improve or learn new public health engineering skills.
The course is in English and a reasonable proficiency is required for by participants
How to register:
Registering in one of our courses is easy. Just select the course you would like to attend, complete the registration form and pay your course deposit fee via our secure credit card payment facility. Once your registration is processed, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how complete your medical and travel form and gain access to essential course information.
If a specific course is full, you can apply to our waiting list for that course. If you do this, we will alert you if a place becomes available. Allocation of wait listed places is on a first come, first served basis. Applicants will be informed of an available place by email or phone and the offer will be open for 48 hours before it defaults to the next person on the wait list. To apply to the wait list, please contact training@redr.org.au