EPN online training courses equips and empowers you with knowledge and practical skills required to support the delivery of quality pharmaceutical services. EPN continues to add more courses on the platform as in order to ensure healthcare workers of all cadres are able to access essential learning resources.
There are currently 14 courses on the platform. Learn more about these course below;
Pharmacy and Health Care
The course provides learners with an overview of health systems and pharmaceutical policy, and will equip them with communication skills essential to their work.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 13 Hrs
Medicine Supply Management
In this course learners will be trained on how to manage, plan and organise the supply system to ensure that essential drugs and quality inputs are available, accessible, affordable and used rationally.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 14 Hrs
Public Health
Preventing Anti-Microbial Resistance
This course helps learners understand the emergence of AMR its patterns, causes, consequences and practical methodologies to prevent AMR at facility level. It also provides several templates and tools with guidance on how to use them in learner settings. Finally, the course requires the students to create an action plan for their own facilities on how they plan to track the use of antibiotics and prevent AMR.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 9 Hrs
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Tackling AMR at Health Institution Level
This course helps learners understand the basic principles of appropriate antibiotic use and AMR control strategies, with particular emphasis on the management of the Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) and its activities in health facilities that promote the rational use of medicines.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 10 Hrs
Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) 
IPC is an evidence-based approach to preventing harm that can be caused by infection. It is a key component of patient care and assures high quality healthcare is delivered. In this course, learners will learn what causes infection, proper hand hygiene techniques, how to clean, disinfect and sterilise medical equipment, devices &, principles of IPC.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 10 Hrs
Pandemic Preparedness & Covid-19 Vaccination 
This course will give a background on vaccinations in general, will shatter common myths about the Covid-19 vaccinations and equip learners with the knowledge to carry out vaccinations themselves and counsel patients about them. Further, the course explores the concept of pandemic preparedness where the learner will investigate past pandemics and how to use the lessons learnt to navigate future pandemics at health facility level.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 8 Hrs
Covid-19 Clinical Management
This course covers COVID-19, its symptoms, management and protecting how healthcare workers protects themselves.
Health workers are central to the COVID-19 pandemic response, balancing additional service delivery needs while preserving access to essential health services and deploying COVID-19 vaccines. They also face higher risks of infection in their efforts to protect the greater community and are exposed to hazards such as psychological distress, fatigue and stigma.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 8 Hrs
Healthcare Practice
Rational Drug Use
Rational use of medicines requires that patients receive medications appropriate to their clinical needs, in doses that meet their own individual requirements for an adequate period of time, and at the lowest cost to them and their community. This course will take learners through the development of clinical guidelines, how each member of the clinical team has a role to play in rational use of medicines, establishment of medicine and therapeutics committees and the importance of national essential medicines list. Rational use of medicines contributes greatly to ending the scourge of antimicrobial resistance. – this is what is there for Rational Drug Use.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 4 Hrs
Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance, also known as drug safety, is the pharmaceutical science relating to the “collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention” of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products. In this course, learners will learn the steps and requirements for performing pharmacovigilance (PV), differentiate between side effects, adverse effects and adverse events, the different parties involved in PV and their roles and data management.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 72 Hrs
Supply Chain and Quality Assurance
Substandard and Falsified Medicines
According to the WHO, up to two billion people around the world lack access to necessary quality medicines, which creates a vacuum that is too often filled with substandard and falsified products. This course supports learners in understanding basic principles of supply chain systems, identifying substandard and falsified medicines, focusing on visual inspection and its respective follow up activities including reporting to health authorities to promote the use of quality medicines.
Target audience: Healthcare workers of all health cadres
Course duration: 4 Hrs
Health Management
Robust and Sustainable Resource mobilisation
This course provides a general overview on the wide range of resource mobilisation strategies that organisations employ to ensure adequate and sustainable resources. The training enables participants to look within their respective organisations and begin to develop and implement successful resource mobilisation strategies.
Target audience: Health facility management, leadership and finance staff
Course duration: 22 Hrs
Counselling and Psychosocial Support for Healthcare workers
This course is designed to give practical skills to healthcare workers to apply in their interaction with other colleagues, patients and their families as well as understand the basics of counselling. It will give learners the confidence to create a safe space for easy communication, train them to listen actively and provide appropriate and helpful responses.
Target audience: Health Care workers and health facility leadership
Course duration: 22 Hrs
Health Commodity Management
This course will enable learners to create simple procedures that ensure timely delivery of commodities as well as the frameworks involved in selection, procurement, distribution and use of these commodities.
The key concepts covered in this area include: health product management, selection and procurement, stock management, reception, management, replenishment and pharmaceutical management information system (data and reports).
Target audience: Supply chain managers, Logisticians
Course duration: 9 Hrs
Financial Management and Sustainability
The course aims at equipping health management and personnel with the necessary skills to plan for a yearly health budget, manage finances and risks in a way that helps achieve the organisation’s financial goals by careful evaluation and strategic planning.
Target audience: Healthcare management and leadership, finance staff
Course duration: 3 Hrs
Leadership and Governance 
This course equips leaders with skills to become better at developing employees, inspiring and guiding teams, managing change and effectively influencing stakeholders in a health organisation. Managers and Leaders require high level skills to predict, analyse and develop strategies to deal with real life situations that they are likely to encounter in the competitive changing organisational environments.
Target audience: Health facility management and leadership
Course duration: 7 Hrs