WHO course: Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV: methods for detection, prevention, response and control
January 30th, 2020https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-to-ncov
Course information
Overview: This course provides a general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel coronaviruses. By the end of this course, you should be able to describe:
- The nature of emerging respiratory viruses, how to detect and assess an outbreak, strategies for preventing and controlling outbreaks due to novel respiratory viruses;
- What strategies should be used to communicate risk and engage communities to detect, prevent and respond to the emergence of a novel respiratory virus.
There are resources attached to each module to help you dive further into this topic.
Learning objective: Describe the fundamental principles of emerging respiratory viruses and how to effectively respond to an outbreak.
Course duration: Approximately 1 hour.
Certificates: No certificate available at this time.
Attention:
- WHO teams are working on additional modules which will be uploaded in the coming days.
- You will be notified when new modules and videos are uploaded. Currently, the materials are offered as slide decks.
- The course will offer a certificate in the future, after all of the modules have been published and a quiz has been added to each module.
Course contents
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Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV: Introduction:
This brief introduction provides an overview of emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV.
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Module A: Introduction to Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV:
Overall learning objective: To be able to explain why an emerging respiratory virus, including nCoV are a global threat to human health
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Module B: Detecting Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV: Surveillance and Laboratory investigation:
Overall learning objective: To describe how to detect and assess an emerging respiratory virus outbreak
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Module C: Risk Communication and Community Engagement:
Overall learning objective: To describe what strategies should be used to communicate risk and engage communities to detect, prevent and respond to nCoV