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Capacity Building

Training and capacity building for community physicians and public health staff.

The College builds the skills of community physicians, trainees and the wider public health workforce through regular academic programmes and targeted training.

Journal Clubs

Regular critical appraisal of recent research — 39 sessions recorded since 2016. See Journal Club sessions.

Young Community Physicians’ Forums

Talks, skills sessions and discussion for trainees and early-career community physicians — 28 forums recorded since 2015. See the forums.

Public Health Legislation Training

DateProgramme
September 2025Webinar: Human rights, fundamental rights and their applicability in public health
30 July 2025Legal awareness session: Health legislation on maternity benefits
28 May 2025Webinar: Health legislation — the Factory Ordinance
26 March 2025CPD session on health legislation
29 January 2025Health legislation: Briefing on the International Health Regulations (2005)
December 2024Webinar: Health legislation — the Private Medical Institutions (Registration) Act

Administration and Management Capacity Building Training

DateProgramme
18 December 2024Regional guest lecture: Leadership skills — stress management and time management (Northern Province)
20 February 2017Workshop on improving health care quality and safety

In-service Training of Other Public Health Staff

DateProgramme
17 September 2025Webinar: Contributing to NCD prevention
7 August 2025In-service training webinar: Thyroid cancer
June 2025Webinar: Role of PHC staff in social and behaviour change communication for child health promotion
21 May 2025In-service training: Injury prevention
11 February 2025Webinar: Bridging public health strategies and clinical care for childhood and adolescent cancer
15 January 2025Educational webinar: Breast and cervical cancer
December 2024Webinar: Correct stock management of vaccines and cold chain maintenance (English medium)
10 December 2024Webinar: Disease surveillance
December 2024Webinar: Ending tuberculosis — a collective responsibility
November 2024Webinar: Vaccine stock management and cold chain maintenance

Communication Skills Training

DateProgramme
23 February 2025Digital photography workshop for public health professionals

Guest Lectures

DateLecture
23 October 2026Counting the dead to help the living: lessons from national mortality studies
22 January 2020Epidemiology in a changing world
November 2018Discrete choice experiments

Other Capacity Building Initiatives

Including the 10-week preparatory course for Medical Officers and Dental Surgeons sitting the Community Medicine and Community Dentistry examinations.

DateProgramme
20 July 2026Pre-congress modelling workshop, CCPSL Public Health Summit 2026
13 July 2025Pre-congress workshop, Annual Academic Sessions 2025
5 March 2025Webinar: Updates on chikungunya
January 2025Manuscript writing workshop: Redefining excellence in manuscript writing
August 2024Post-congress workshop, AAS 2024: Engaging youth in promoting nutrition
17 July 2024Webinar on climate change
30 June 2024Webinar: ආහාර නිවැරදිව තෝරා ගමු (Selecting food correctly)
April 2024Two-day workshop: Master the art of writing scholarly articles
August 2023Pre-congress workshop, Annual Academic Sessions 2023
28 May 2023Public webinar: Current dengue situation in Sri Lanka and control measures
April 2023Public webinar: Heat waves — health effects and prevention strategies
January 2023Public health webinar: Yet another COVID wave in China — are we ready?
December 2022Public webinar: Air pollution — an update on the recent situation in Sri Lanka
March 2021Workshop: Mapping the risk of COVID-19 spread at subnational level and risk-based calibration of public health and social measures
January 2021Webinar 3: Vaccination as a strategy for the control and prevention of COVID-19
January 2021Webinar 2: Public health response to COVID-19 — an update
10 January 2017Academic writing workshop

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