his tot pilot success!

saturday marked the first his (health information systems) tot's (trainers of the trainers) workshop. (see sufficiently nondescript picture from the training on the right.) decoded this is part of a program that trains high level data staff at the different public health organizations on the border so that they, in turn, can train other staff. the hope is that this will create a sustainable solution for staff development at the different organizations while also to encouraging collaboration across the different groups. we submitted it to apha as an abstract, so maybe it'll get presented at the next conference in november (which would be a good opportunity to spread awareness about burma and to connect with potential donors.)

on a less technical note, the trainers did such a great job! it was a really big deal for them to be the teachers since teaching is held in such high esteem in burmese culture and they were super nervous about it. i was also really pleased because they implemented quite a few ideas from the teaching training i did a few days before.