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THS Director, Prof Rick Speare, helped facilitate a workshop in Bangkok in April to improve eLearning across the Thailand One Health University Network (THOHUN). The workshop was called "Planning meeting for e-learning development" and it was held in Bangkok on 4-5 April 2016. The workshop was attended by about 35 university academics from 32 faculties from 6 Thai universities. Disciplines represented included medicine, nursing, veterinary science, dentistry, pharmacy and environmental science.

Tropical Health Solutions (THS) assists individuals and groups to undertake research on an ongoing or case by case basis. This is one of our jobs! The THS Directors, however, are productive academics in their own right. THS directors now have 27 publications under the THS banner. Pretty good going for a "commercial" entity! Our goal is to do research to academic standards and we think our publication record attests to this. If you want assistance with publication or any research-related topic, please contact us for an obligation-free quote.

The National Medicines Symposium will be held in Canberra on 18-20 May 2016. Scholarships to attend this symposium are available for folk from Asia and the Pacific Islands. The symposium is about quality use of medicines. The scholarship provides an opportunity for a health academic, health worker or policy maker from the Asia-Pacific region with an interest in quality use of medicines or rational drug use to attend and present their work.

The World Health Organization has confirmed a new case of Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone, a 22 year old female student at Magburaka town in Tonkolili district who died on 12 January 2016 (Gulland 2016; WHO 2016). The case was reported just a day after WHO declared the end of transmission of the virus in west Africa. Human-to-human transmission directly linked to the 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa was declared to have ended in Sierra Leone on 7 November 2015.