Following a pilot course module on Maternal Mortality (see below) 11 course modules are currently under development. 70 people from 23 countries have volunteered to help with this.

A demonstration course module on Maternal Mortality is available on
http://moodle.cawd.net/course/view.php?id=2

An evaluation of the pilot run of this course module was conducted (38 peoples from 8 countries enrolled initially) and the results are shown here.

All comments and suggestions for improvement or additional resources will be much appreciated.

A paper giving the background to the Peoples-uni.org is published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.

Awards and assessment:

The UK Royal Society of Health has agreed to work with us towards the supervision of assessments and the offering of awards (at the certificate and diploma levels).

Conferences:

TENConference meeting June 2007 – paper was submitted on behalf of Peoples-uni

“Developing a competence framework for Public Health professionals in the Peoples-uni.org”

Openlearn (Open University) conference October. To discuss open access of education materials. Paper submitted by Dick Heller and Perihan Torun on behalf of Peoples-uni “ Embedding open content in education – Peoples-uni.org”. The PowerPoint presentation can be seen here.

The UK Faculty of Public Health have offered collaboration, and a number of trainees are involved in course module development and on-line facilitation. A presentation was made at the Annual Conference of the Faculty, and can be seen here.