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5th Asia School Health and Nutrition Training Course

Over the course of nine days from November 26 to December 4, 2015, the 5^th Asia School Health and Nutrition Training Course was held at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. For the fifth session of this course, the Japan Consortium for Global School Health Research put together a program in cooperation with Thailand’s Mahidol University and Britian’s Partnership for Child Development (PCD), and approximately 30 people participated from 11 Asian nations (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Laos, India, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Thailand). Department Professor Kobayashi, who is a director of the Japan Consortium for Global School Health Research, undertook the training planning, administration and lectures, and students Kethsana and Henzan provided administrative support.