Two day national training on Drug Epidemiology and Drug Information was held in Tsakhkadzor 20-22 of May, 2009. The training was conducted by Dr. Zaruhi Beglaryan , UNDP/SCAD national expert on drug information/epidemiology. The objective of the training was to train responsible staff of Monitoring Center on Drug and Drug addiction of the National Institute of Health as well as Information Resource Person in all aspects of drug abuse epidemiology and provide practical guidance on internationally comparable, locally appropriate and culturally adaptable measures and methods of drug related data collection, analyses and dissemination. The methodology of the training was based on presentations, group work and practical exercises. As an expected results of the training the training participants will have:
• The knowledge on best practices and modern approaches in field of drug epidemiology
• The practices on methods drug related data collection and processing, management, integration and annotation
• The skills to evaluate the existing policies, programmes, and interventions and process/analyze drug related data using advances statistical tools
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