Component 2: The training course will be once per year for 6 years in the different regions of WHO. The model is virtually the same as that used in Cambridge. The  objectives are for the students to meet others from outside their disciplines to build bridges and collaboration. The learning objectives are to give the students tools needed for research into the prevention of Non-communicable diseases. The course work will include areas such as epidemiology, biostatistics, evaluation, chronic disease epidemiology, risk factors, etc.  These lectures will be in English and take place in the morning. In the afternoon each of the 8 instructors will be assigned to  6 students, and will develop projects in the area of non-communicable diseases, such as Physical Activity and NCD health, national NCD programs, diabetes and CHD, disabilities associated with NCDs, depression, cancer, diabetes and NCD, etc. On the final two days the groups will present their research program/project.