COURSE AGENDA

The following is  a sample agenda based on the January 2009 course. Please consult the agenda distributed at the start of class for the actual day to day course agenda.

The final printed 2009 course agenda is posted here as a PDF as well.

Agenda



Monday 
8:30-8:55             Welcome/Pre-Test
9:00-9:25             Overview, Nuts and Bolts
9:30-10:15           History of Humanitarianism
10:15-10:35         Break
10:40-11:30         Evolution of Humanitarian Crises
11:35-12:55          Key Issues in Humanitarian Crises
1:00-2:00             Lunch / Office Hour
2:00-3:15             Humanitarian Standards and SPHERE
3:15-4:30             Humanitarian Controversies Panel
4:30-5:30             Humanitarian Group Exercise: Intro

Tuesday
8:30 - 8:55           Breakfast Presentation
9:00 - 9:55           Methods in Humanitarian Research
10:00 - 10:55        Methods in Humanitarian Research (cont)
11:00-11:15          Break
11:15 - 12:25        Follow the Money in Humanitarian Aid and NGO Salad
12:30 - 1:30          Lunch / Office Hour
1:35 - 2:55            Rapid Health Assessment
3:00 - 4:30            Humanitarian Group Exercise: Rapid Assessment
4:30 - 5:30            Case Debrief: Rapid Assessment

Wednesday  
8:30 - 8:55            Breakfast Presentation
9:00 - 9:55            Communicable Disease in Displaced Populations
10:00 - 10:55         Environmental Humanitarian Crises
11:00 - 11:15         Break
11:15 - 12:30         GIS
12:30 - 1:55           Lunch / Office Hour
2:00 - 2:55             Case Study Presentation
3:00 - 4:30             Humanitarian Group Exercise: Communicable
Disease
4:30 - 5:30             Case Debrief: Communicable Disease

Thursday
8:30 - 8:55            Breakfast Presentation
9:00 - 9:55            IHL and HR
10:00 - 10:55         Mental Health and Psychosocial Aspects of
Disasters                    
11:00 - 11:15         Break
11:15 - 12:30         Ethics
12:30 - 1:55           Lunch / Office Hour
2:00 - 2:55             Civil Military Relations Panel
3:00 - 4:30             Humanitarian Group Exercise: Security & Protection
4:30 - 5:30             Case Debrief: Security & Protection

Friday 
8:30 - 8:55            Breakfast Presentation
9:00 - 10:30           Food Aid / Food Security
10:30-10:45           Break
10:45 - 12:15         Livelihoods
12:15 - 1:15           Lunch / Office Hour
1:15 - 2:45             Emergency Nutrition
3:00 - 4:30             Humanitarian Group Exercise: Nutrition
4:30 - 5:30             Case Debrief: Nutrition

Monday
8:30 - 8:55             Breakfast Presentation
9:00 - 9:55             Logistics and Coordination
10:00 - 10:55         Methods in Cluster Sampling
11:00 - 11:15         Break
11:15 - 12:30         Wat/San
12:30 - 1:30           Lunch / Office Hour
1:35 - 2:55             Shelter
3:00 - 4:30             Humanitarian Group Exercise: Shelter, WatSan, Site
4:30 - 5:30             Case Debrief: Shelter, WatSan, Site

Tuesday
8:30 - 8:55            Breakfast Presentation
9:00 - 9:55            Genocide
10:00 - 10:55         GBV
11:00 - 11:15         Break
11:15 - 12:30         Child Soldiers
12:30 - 1:55           Lunch / Office Hour
2:00 - 2:55             Interaction w/ Media
3:00 - 4:30             Humanitarian Group Exercise: Media
4:30 - 5:30             Case Debrief: Media

Wednesday
8:30 - 8:55        Breakfast Presentation
9:00 - 9:55        TBD
10:00 - 10:55     Budgeting and Reporting
11:00 - 11:15     Break
11:15 - 12:30     Monitoring and Evaluation
12:30 - 1:55       Lunch / Office Hour
2:00 - 2:55         Monitoring and Evaluation contd
3:00 - 4:30         Humanitarian Group Exercise: Budgeting
4:30 - 5:30         Case Debrief: Monitoring and Evaluation and Budget

Thursday
8:30 - 8:55         Breakfast Presentation
9:00 - 10:20       The Unfinished Agenda in Global Health
10:20 - 11:15      Breakout Sessions
11:15 - 11:25      Break
11:25 - 12:30      Breakout Sessions
12:30 - 1:55        Lunch
2:00 - 4:30          Final Presentations
4:30 - 6:30          Happy Hour (Third Thursday)

Friday
9:30 - 9:55          Breakfast
10:00 - 11:15      Field Placement/Personal Travel Issues
11:15-12:30        Evals/Post-test Wrap-up
12:30-2:00          Career Development Panel
2:00 - 5:00          Graduation