The world is facing a new era of emerging infectious diseases (e.g., SARS-CoV-2) that can threaten human health due to their complexity and devastating impact on society and the socio-economic development of each country. This pandemic has highlighted the importance of training human resources in public health to recognise, monitor, and treat positive COVID-19 cases and to communicate to the population the importance of adhering to the containment and mitigation measures recommended at the local, regional, and global levels.
In this sense, this course is aimed at students of related disciplines to provide basic knowledge of the disease outbreak investigation process using the COVID-19 pandemic as an example. Theoretical foundation will be provided to participants to support outbreak management in their local communities.
The course content is developed using a case-based problem divided into two main chapters:
- Introduction to Outbreak Investigation and
- Infection Prevention and Control in Acute Respiratory Infections for Health Workers in Low and Middle-Income Countries.
The course is 8 weeks long, with each week containing one unit of interactive video content, mandatory lectures, activities, quizzes, assessments, and the requirements listed at the beginning of each unit. |
