Opened Practices Users Working in: School of Public Health and Family Medicine

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Dr. Andrea Rother holds a PhD in environmental sociology and is Programme Head of the Health Risk Management Programme in the Occupational and Environmental Health Research Unit in the School of Public Health at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa.She is developer and programme convener of a e-learning Post Graduate Diploma in Pesticide Risk Management at UCT in conjunction with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). The course aims to build the capacity of developing country pesticide regulators and pesticide risk managers to reduce pesticide risks from and reliance on pesticides. This course is taught through UCTs on-line teaching platform, Vula. Students with poor internet connections and continual power cuts actively take part in "live seminars" through a chat room where they are exposed to guest lecturers and current/relevant topics.