This course is all about infectious diseases. We’ve selected four disease areas — HIV, Malaria, Emerging Infectious Diseases (Ebola and Zika), and TB — and we will go through each in turn. We’ve selected these diseases because they span a range of different types of disease and allow us to look at important issues that relevance of other diseases too. We will look at each disease in the same way: we begin by looking at the aetiology and epidemiology of the diseases. We then show how data on this disease can be used to understand important trends and patterns. We then focus on the interventions that can be used to address that disease - typically spanning both prevention and treatment - and consider how policies have been developed to address the disease. We finish by reflecting on the whole topic area of the disease with an external expert.
This course is part of the Global Disease Masterclass Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
HIV
Malaria
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Tuberculosis
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TOP REVIEWS FROM GLOBAL DISEASE MASTERCLASS: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES EPIDEMIOLOGY, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
Fairly light. Good if you have no background in anything.
Great teachers; ample and extensive material; loved the WHO interactive maps and data sheets.
I learned lots of knowledge from this course. This course is very much useful to know more about Communicable diseases and their interventions.
This course is very nice and definitely it is going to help me in my profession. Thank you.
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