Targeted at senior government officials, NGO workers, and international development agency officers, this course is focused on the social and cultural aspects of reproductive and sexual health. The program also offers a short-course titled ‘Applied Health Research’. It is designed for public health professionals and aims to expand the participants’ understandings of different research methodologies. It also offers a short-course on ‘Gender and HIV/AIDS’, which aims to provide participants with an analytic framework to understand and find practical solutions to gender issues in HIV/AIDS programming in South East Asia. These courses are supported by the Ford Foundation and World Health Organisation.