ABulletin of the World Health Organization | August 2008, 86 (8) Letters Accessible public-health

We were pleased to see that the Decem-ber 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization featured the important topic of public-health edu-cation. In particular, we welcome the attention given to the urgent priority of producing public-health profession-als in Africa, a somewhat neglected aspect of the continent’s documented health human resource crisis.1 We would like to augment the interesting – if challenging – informa-tion presented from the AfriHealth study, which reports on data collected between late 2001 and mid-2003. In particular, we would like to report on subsequent successful developments in distance-learning, which IJsselmuiden et al. note as “ … rare, as is on-the-job … training”.1 Since 2000, the School of Public Health (SOPH) at the University o