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    Partnering with immunization staff for capacity building: The START project

    The CDC is testing a different approach to capacity building with multiple on-the-job training visits to ensure knowledge and skills are not only learned — but also applied. Find out more in this #HealthyMeans opinion by Dr. Rebecca Martin, director of the Global Immunization Division at the CDC’s Center for Global Health.

    By Rebecca Martin // 02 December 2014

    For public health capacity building and training programs to achieve success, effective partnerships are key.

    Partners must agree on whether a weakness in the health system is a training issue or not. If so, then they must agree on the skill and knowledge gaps among staff to be trained, on who should be trained, on the training methods and materials to be used, and on how to measure the impact of the training. Anyone who has helped develop a training agenda knows it sometimes requires the negotiation skills of senior diplomats.

    One of the common ways a capacity building program can fail is to ignore the training participants as being partners.  

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      Rebecca Martin is the director of the global immunization division at the Center for Global Health in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She leads theagency's global polio eradication efforts, accelerated disease control for vaccine-preventable diseases, and strengthening the delivery of immunization services. She began her career with CDC in 1997 and has held positions both domestically and globally in immunization and HIV/AIDS.

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