Teaching and Training Activities of Rick Speare
Formal activities:
Rick Speare is subject coordinator for the following postgraduate
subjects offered by School of Public Health and Tropical
Medicine:
As subject coordinator Rick am responsible for the design of
curricula, coordination of lectures, and assessment. He also
delivers the majority of lectures in these subjects except for
TM5517 where both coordination and delivery is shared with
another staff member.
Rick also teaches sessions in an additional eight of the School's
postgraduate subjects, namely:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (TM5510)
- Entomology for Public Health (TM5516)
- Public Health Management (TM5513)
- Refugee Health (TM5536)
- Travel Medicine (TM5512)
- Tropical Medicine (TM5501)
- Tropical Paediatrics (TM5534)
- Tropical Public Health (TM5502)
South Africa - Australia Joint Links
Project
From 1997 to the current time, Rick has been involved in an
AusAID funded project, South Africa - Australia Joint Links
Project. The project is a collaborative effort between School of
Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Mpumalanga Department of
Health and the Department of Community Medicine, University of
Witwatersrand. The project aims to provide formal training to
district Communicable Disease Control Coordinators responsible
for control of communicable diseases in Mpumalanga Province,
South Africa. In this project Rick has assisted in curriculum
design, and delivered two of the teaching sessions on report
writing and computer skills.
Informal Teaching and Training
Activities:
- Workshop on head lice. Since 1998, I have been running
a 3 hr workshop on head lice, their management and control. This
has been held twice in Townsville, and once in Cairns, Brisbane,
Gold Coast and Perth. The workshop is designed to give accurate
information to health professionals particularly community nurses
and pharmacists, teachers and members of P&Cs, hairdressers and
members of the public to enable them to more effectively advise
on head lice control. Within the next 6 months workshops will be
held at Townsville, Mackay and Adelaide. The workshops are either
funded by professional societies, pharmaceutical companies or
government health departments.
- Ad hoc training sessions for health professionals outside our
academic courses on grant writing and tropical parasitology.
- April 1996: Five day training session on dog health for
Aboriginal health workers, environmental health workers and
community members at Ramingining, east Arnhem Land.
- March 1999, Perth: Half-day program training zoologists to
diagnose amphibian chytridiomycosis using histological
techniques.
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