Epidemics

What can we do to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases from becoming epidemics or pandemic? In this course, you’ll learn the facts about infectious diseases and medical responses. We'll focus on the public health laws and policies that provide the framework for effective prevention, like quarantine laws, drug development [...]

Explore the current and emerging threat of global health pandemics and how we can respond to them effectively. Plagues may seem like an occurrence of the past, but outbreaks of infectious disease exist all over the world today. This online course will look at the current and emerging threat [...]

Explore the science, prevention and control of epidemics in this free online course. In addition to lectures by leading scientists in this field from HKU, this course will feature a supplementary module on COVID-19 and panel discussions with world-leading experts in epidemics.

Understand the impact of sleep deprivation and how to improve your own sleep with this Teach-Out from the University of Michigan. Learn how to sleep better with these solutions and strategies. Sleep deprivation is a silent epidemic. Since the invention of the light bulb, we have been getting less [...]

An introduction to public health and wider responses to high-risk biological agent events, epidemics and bioterrorism. As our understanding of biology and disease has increased, so has our ability to manipulate both, leading to serious concerns about protecting and maintaining public health. High risk biological agent events, epidemics and [...]

Learn JavaScript programming by implementing key biology concepts in code, including natural selection, genetics and epidemics. If you are interested in learning programming, but find pure programming courses not very exciting, this course is for you.

Ce MOOC est destiné à former les participants, à partir d’une étude de cas, à la surveillance des maladies infectieuses émergentes, mais aussi à la prévention et au contrôle des épidémies. Les maladies infectieuses émergentes nécessitent une approche interdisciplinaire mobilisant l’épidémiologie et les biomathématiques, la virologie, l’immunologie, la santé [...]

How has the Ebola outbreak become a humanitarian emergency? Learn about the science behind the crisis.In 2014, Ebola went from a scarcely known virus to the subject of daily news reports. The epidemic in West Africa has quickly surpassed all previous outbreaks, to become an unprecedented humanitarian [...]