Infectious Disease Transmission Models for Decision-Makers

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Overview

Understand the strengths and limitations of possible approaches, and they know the right questions to ask about the vulnerabilities of the model result

Duration	3 hours
Total fee	Free
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Beginner
Official Website	Explore Free Course
Credential	Certificate

Infectious Disease Transmission Models for Decision-Makers

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Earn a certificate upon completion

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Skills you will learn

Forecasting

What are the course deliverables?

Review the basics of infections disease epidemiology and transmission and key components of infectious disease models
Present questions that can be answered by infectious disease transmission models and types of models used to answer each type of question
Describe how to assess whether or not a model is ?good? or useful for informing policy
Identify the most important considerations for making decisions based on infectious disease transmission models

More about this course

This course aims to provide anyone who makes decisions about public health policies and programs with a clear understanding of how infectious disease transmission models work, the various types and functions, and how they can be appropriately used to make decisions
There is no requirement that students have any prior background in infectious disease models and the course does not include any equations
In this course, participants will review the basics of infectious disease transmission models, including comparisons to other types of predictions used in daily life and an overview of the key components of a model and modeling structure
Next, participants will delve into the types of infectious disease models: forecasting, inferential, and theoretical models
Then, participants will learn about assessing whether a model is useful, reasonable and relevant, as well as the vulnerabilities of these models
Learners who complete this course will have a broad view of infectious disease transmission models, how to assess the usefulness of a given model, and how these models inform policy decisions

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Curriculum

Basics of Infectious Disease Transmission Models

Types of infectious disease models

Assessing the Value of an Infectious Disease Transmission Model

Modeling and policy decisions

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Faculty details

Emily Gurley

Dr. Gurley has worked in public health research in Bangladesh since 2003, and she spent 12 years at the icddr,b (International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh) where she led the Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation Unit, and served as Director of the Program on Emerging Infections.

Dr. Amy Wesolowski

Dr. Amy Wesolowski is an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. her research focuses on the use of computational methods to investigate transmission patterns of various infectious diseases - with a particular focus on vaccine-preventable and vector-borne diseases.