to strengthen epidemiological skills for diseasesurveillance; outbreak investigation; evaluation of screeningmethods and to conduct community surveys; to increase knowledge of and facilitate experience with the design, organization and implementation of field research, questionnaire designdata collection; and to increase microcomputerknowledge and skills for data analysis and interpretation. The programme applies adulteducation principles within a series of workshops and complementary field study activities. Trining activities commenced in the second quarter of 1993, and over 60 individuals had participated by the end of the year. Several evaluation instruments reveal positive outcomes in each of three sites to date. Major gains in knowledge have been demonstrated in pre/post-course testing. Multiple regression analysis reveals that the strongest predictor of post-course performance (including epidemiology, statistics, and computing) is pre-course performance in computing (AU)