Pandemics

Gain insights into tracking, treating, preventing, and preparing for pandemics through genome sequencing and data sharing. See how viral genomics can improve the response to COVID-19 and future pandemics. Genomics is crucial in understanding and responding to pandemics, including COVID-19. On this three-week course, you’ll learn key concepts in [...]

Discover the process of how swab samples become critical data that aid the knowledge and understanding of the spread of disease. Explore the journey from swabbing to processing data. Sampling and testing are key to understanding where a disease is spreading. In the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of samples [...]

This course explores the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on members of disadvantaged communities, with lectures and course materials from dozens of countries, around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken millions of lives and caused many millions of people to lose their jobs and/or [...]

Gain insight into the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how innovations can be used to leverage AMR diagnostics. What lessons can the antimicrobial (AMR) response take from COVID-19 events? As the world continues to deal with COVID-19, its impact on other public health issues must also be [...]

Discover how scientists responded to the pandemic and how they conduct innovative research to develop treatments and vaccines. Explore the critical role of research in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic took the world by surprise, causing a global health crisis. Reducing the spread [...]