SSI Home Page Workshops include lectures on infectious diseases relevant to the region, and on the lab techniques being applied. Throughout the workshop, participants work in groups on chosen research topics.
Participants learn all aspects of the techniques used in the workshop.
Here, Dr Patricia Gomez and Dr Celeste Gonzalez load an agarose gel for analysis of PCR products during the 1997 Phase I workshop in La Paz, Bolivia. Dr Marcelo Aguilar, giving a lecture on epidemiologic methods during the 1995 Phase II Workshop in Quito, Ecuador. Development of epidemiological surveys using Epi-Info during the Phase II workshop in La Paz, Bolivia, 1998. During the laboratory section of the workshops, participants meet in groups to plan the day's activities and later to discuss the day's results. Grant proposal preparation during week two of the phase II workshop in La Paz, Bolivia, 1998.