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Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones (Coursera)

This course is about what we can learn from examining the human skeleton, and how we can use this knowledge to reconstruct the lives of people who lived in the past. In archaeology and anthropology, human skeletal remains can provide unique insights into the past and the present; insights [...]

Epidemics, Pandemics and Outbreaks (Coursera)

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 [...]

Diagnosing Rare Diseases: from the Clinic to Research and back (FutureLearn)

Discover the role of research, clinical investigation and data sharing in diagnosing rare diseases. Learn about rare diseases diagnosis, genetic testing and diagnostic research. Around 30 million people in Europe are living with a rare genetic disease (a disease that affects less than 1 in 2,000 [...]

Global Health: Ebola, COVID, and Beyond (edX)

Become part of the global health community and prepare yourself to join teams providing care. This introductory course, first delivered in September 2016, explores how multidisciplinary teams can work more effectively together to address global health needs. Whether you seek a career in international health or medicine, volunteer to [...]

Microbiomes & Sustainability (edX)

The course is an introduction to microbiomes and sustainability. It argues that global microbiomes are fundamentally relevant to sustainability. Topics include principles of sustainability, sustainable development, microbiomes in humans and the environment, bioremediation, and bioretention. For more than 3.5 billion years microbes and their communities (microbiomes) have shaped the [...]

Epigenetics: Human Health (IST)

Our journey continues. Welcome to the second stop of our journey into the epigenetic realms of human health and disease. This is the second course of the epigenetics trilogy. We will recover the link of epigenetics with disease; explore epigenetic-inspired molecular therapeutics to move cells from states of disease [...]

Machine Learning for Healthcare (edX)

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An introduction to machine learning for healthcare, ranging from theoretical considerations to understanding human consequences of deploying technology in the clinic, through hands-on Python projects using real healthcare data. Machine learning methods have revolutionized many aspects of healthcare, from new models that help clinicians make more informed decisions to [...]

Disease Outbreaks in Low and Middle Income Countries (FutureLearn)

Learn more about infectious disease outbreaks and why they occur, and explore the impact of disease outbreaks on global health. Explore infectious disease outbreaks and learn how to prepare for them. Recent outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases have shown we need to be able to coordinate responses to disease [...]

Doença de Chagas - Triagem e diagnóstico sorológico em Unidades Hemoterápicas e Laboratórios de Saúde Pública (TELELAB)

O curso propõe tratar de questões referentes à preparação de realização do método de diagnóstico da Doença de Chagas - da infeção por Trypanossoma cruzi - em ambiente de laboratórios de Saúde Pública, considerando a identificação e utilização adequada dos equipamentos e procedimentos.

Doença Falciforme - Conhecer para cuidar (TELELAB)

Este curso visa a transmitir aos participantes informações adequadas obre a Doença Falciforme, bem como estabelecer subsídios que possam contribuir com a melhoria do atendimento às pessoas com a doença. Você aprenderá a história da doença e sua dispersão pelo mundo, quais os principais sintomas que a caracterizam e [...]