COVID-19: Global Health Perspectives (FutureLearn)

On this course, you’ll discover how a country’s response and resilience to COVID-19 is directly shaped by the disparity between global systems, including health, political, economic and environmental systems.

As you learn what pandemic preparedness requires, you’ll analyse key lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic, and consider how these lessons can be applied to a country’s emergency planning and decision-making for the future.

What topics will you cover?

- Impacts of both COVID-19 and varying country responses to COVID-19

- Readiness for and responses to COVID-19

- Resilience demonstrated in responses to the pandemic and the inequities driving uneven pandemic outcomes

- Intersectionality of vulnerable systems and population-level inequities in relation to COVID-19 and responses to COVID-19

- Pandemic prevention, preparedness, and health system strengthening for the future

- The intersection of multiple systems in shaping the impacts and responses to COVID-19

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Assess the widely varied responses to and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in diverse country contexts, and analyse the significance of different health systems and political, economic and environmental factors in determining these differences.

- Compare and contrast different country and community readiness for and resilience to COVID-19.

- Evaluate how complex and intersecting inequalities have both shaped, and are being shaped by COVID-19 and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

- Understand key opportunities and strategies for the future in relation to inter-sectoral pandemic preparedness, and designing responses with a focus on health systems strengthening, equity and inclusion.