Residential field site training programme abstracts

Programme and Abstracts Monday

s of invited talks

First Control Training Site Workshop (1stCTSW) Book of Abstracts

Four years into the Indian ocean field epidemiology training programme

INTRODUCTION Following the 2005-6 chikungunya outbreak, a project to strengthen regional Public Health preparedness in the Indian Ocean was implemented. It includes the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion (France) and Seychelles. A Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP-OI) was started in 2011 to develop a pool of well-trained intervention epidemiologists. METHODS The FETP-OI consist...

SLaTE 2009 Workshop Technical Programme and Abstracts

In this work we introduce a set of response strategies that capture the effect of cultural norms on the behavior of conversational agents in language and culture training systems. Response strategies cover behavior such as deception, vagueness, and distraction. Starting from a vocabulary of strategies derived from the literature on compliance and cooperation, we compare this explicit list to ev...

Special Programme for Research & Training