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Disease Outbreaks in Low and Middle Income Countries
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Start Date: 12 Oct, 2020
  • 3 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Understand infectious disease outbreaks and learn how to prepare for them with this course for people working in global health.

Course Fee: Free
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Course Description

Explore disease outbreaks and outbreak preparedness


On this 3-week course, you will explore disease outbreaks, discovering what outbreaks are and why they matter as well as the different responses to such outbreaks. You will also consider the future of outbreak preparedness.


Learn about disease prevention in middle and low income countries


Recent outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases have shown we need to be able to coordinate responses to disease outbreaks at the regional, country and global level.


You’ll think about who is responsible for controlling outbreaks, and the critical role of preparedness to prevent, control, and respond to the spread of infectious diseases.


Discover the future of disease control with experts


After exploring the current challenges encountered by teams working in effective outbreak response, you’ll look to the future and think about key insights and new innovations in disease control and prevention. How can modern technology place us in a better position to handle diseases in the future?


Through the course, you will learn from experts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a leading institution in the field and part of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) partnership.


This course is for those interested in, studying or working in global and public health. This includes government stakeholders; health practitioners and NGO employees - particularly those working in countries regularly affected by infectious disease outbreaks.


Translations are available at the bottom of each step in French, Arabic, Spanish and Russian to assist learners with the course content.


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    • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

      The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world leader in research and postgraduate education in public and global health.

      The School’s mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

      The School was named the world’s leading research-focused graduate school (Times Higher Education 2013), and is now among the world’s top 100 universities by reputation (March 2014). In May 2014, it was ranked in the top 10 of all universities in the world for citation rate by the new EU-supported U-Multirank database, and fourth in the world for impact in medical sciences by the Leiden Ranking.

      The School’s research income has grown to over £79 million per year from national and international funding sources including the UK government, the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The School’s multidisciplinary expertise includes clinicians, epidemiologists, statisticians, social scientists, molecular biologists and immunologists.

      The School’s staff, students and alumni work in more than 180 countries in government, academia, international agencies and health services.

       

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