she attend an event in Rabat here an article in frensh:
Remise de diplômes à la promotion de l'Institut national de l'administration sanitaire (INAS) : S.A.R. la Princesse Lalla Salma reçoit à Rabat S.A.R. l'Infante Dona Cristina d'Espagne
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Infanta Dona Cristina, president of works sociales de La Caixa Foundation, attended, in Rabat Thursday evening at the ceremony certificates to the first promotion of Moroccan epidemiologists. Morocco and Spain develop an intense medical cooperation. Thus the second phase of training in epidemiology to public health, which is part of the Spanish-Moroccan cooperation in the field of health, was presented Thursday in Rabat.
This new cooperation project aimed at training specialists to strengthen the network of epidemiological surveillance of Morocco is the result of combined efforts of the social work of the Foundation and the Caixa Foundation Clinic of Barcelona, in collaboration with the Moroccan Ministry Health (National Institute of Health Administration, INAS), the University of Barcelona and the Spanish Agency of Public Health, according to a joint communique of the La Caixa Foundation and the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona. The objective of this second phase is the training of specialists in epidemiology and bio-statistics at the INAS, to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Health in terms of epidemiological vigilance and strengthen the mission of the INAS as a national center for training experts in public health in 2010.
The presentation ceremony of the second phase was devoted to the evaluation of the first phase of this training program.
The first phase of the project, launched in the spring of 2007, was to select the education and teachers in charge of designing the training program of about thirty frames composed of doctors, nurses and managers in epidemiology during the school year 2007-2008.
The presentation ceremony of the second phase was marked by the presence of HRH the Infanta Dona Cristina, Program Director of Social Caixa Foundation, the Health Minister, Yasmina Baddou, the adviser (minister) Catalan Health, Marina Geli and CEO of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Raimon Belenes. The objective of this cooperation project which is spread over four years is to contribute by 2010 to improve the capacity of the Ministry of Health in Morocco in terms of epidemiological surveillance and response to epidemics and ensure the institutional development of the INAS.