Biosecurity: More than meets the Eye

The short course will seek to develop critical competencies in the scientific and practical understanding of biosecurity redefined to the Caribbean context. These competencies will range from: understanding the basic biosecurity terminology, applying suitable tools to analyse varied biosecurity issues, practical application of biosecurity impacts on animal and human health, economy, trade, financial sector, tourism, environment and border security, and the application of potential methods to mitigate against these impacts.
 

Cooling Buildings Thoughtfully

This course seeks to demonstrate how the cooling of buildings in the Caribbean can be enhanced by improving energy-efficiency in the building sector, integrating the most energy efficient-technologies to address cooling load in buildings, and how this sustainable cooling eco-system can influence corporate consumer behaviour. More specifically, the course will introduce concepts of building physics, psychrometry, comfort cooling techniques and technologies, adaptive thermal comfort, and sustainable cooling technologies. Moreover, this course will enable delegates to apply these concepts in the building design process.

The course explores the complex technical insights of sustainable building concepts through sensitizing delegates using debates, exercises and activities so that they are motivated to build buildings that are ‘thoughtfully’ cool in the near future.
The course will help delegates to develop technical skills in order to make sound decisions while designing a climate- responsive and energy-efficient building.
 

[Biosecurity] Living A Wild Life Part 1: Illicit Wildlife Trade, Money Laundering and Border Security

The short course will seek to develop critical competencies in the scientific and practical understanding of biosecurity implications associated with wildlife hunting, wildlife trade and consumption and zoonotic disease transmission in financial sector, legal, animal health, environmental management and border security professionals.  These competencies will range from understanding the basic terminology, the critical nature of these human activities, the negative impacts on the economy, trade, financial sector, agriculture, tourism and border security, and the potential methods to mitigate against these impacts.
 

[Biosecurity] Living a Wild Life Part 2: Wildlife, Zoonoses, Pandemics and One Health

The short course will seek to develop critical competencies in the scientific and practical understanding of biosecurity implications associated with wildlife hunting, wildlife trade and consumption and zoonotic disease transmission in public health.  These competencies will range from understanding the basic terminology, the critical nature of these human activities, the negative impacts on animal and human health and the environment and the potential interventions to mitigate against these impacts.
 

Diet and Nutrition

Diabetes- Origin, Testing, Treatment and Management (DOTTM)

Food Safety Preventive Controls for Human Food

This course is an internally recognised and certified course based on the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) course curriculum. Participants will learn how to develop a food safety plan and understand the new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) regulations, using best practices and case study examples, in a collaborative and interactive eLearning environment.

Preventive food safety controls allow businesses to identify and correct issues early in the production process. While many food businesses already have preventive controls in place, by applying food safety requirements more broadly, this further enhances the safety of food across sectors. Thus, the purpose of this course is to enhance participants’ knowledge of preventive controls, recordkeeping, verification and validation procedures, and food safety hazards so that they can create an efficient food safety plan.
 

Hypertension- Origin, Testing, Treatment and Management (HOTTM)

Health and Safety in Building and Maintenance

This course will foster delegates’ understanding of the role of the employer and employee in maintaining a Health and Safety environment at the workplace including understanding the common workplace hazards such as: Sick Building Syndromes (SBS). Delegates will learn the hazards associated with construction and maintenance work on site and at home, and the strategies to avoid them. The course will examine the techniques for differentiating between natural light and artificial light and its impact on health and safety as well as human comfort. Delegates will also be introduced to sustainable building envelopes as interface between the internal and external environment. Moreover, delegates will acquire knowledge of sound levels and their impact on health and safety as well as on the well-being of humans. Finally, the course will introduce delegates to methods of designing sustainable building envelopes to minimize the growth of melds and other micro-organisms.
 

Peripheral Intravenous Access and IV Access Care

Intravenous access is an intermediate level clinical skill that can mean the difference between life and death for patients. It also bears great responsibility from care providers, as it can become a significant source of morbidity and mortality if poorly placed, secured, or maintained. This course seeks to equip health care professionals with this vital skill set and to increase confidence with the placement and management of intravenous therapy in patients 16 years of age and older.
The course is specially designed for the professional development of health care professionals working in the clinical setting such as hospitals, clinics, acute care departments/ surgical or day-case centres, home care and hospice care, where IV access may be required in an elective or emergency setting and/ or care of vascular access and infusion therapy may be required.