During the COVID-19 pandemic, both the promise and perils of using infectious disease transmission models to make public health policy decisions became clearer than ever. Optimal use of modeled output requires that public health policy makers be informed consumers of models, that they understand the strengths and limitations of possible approaches, and they know the right questions to ask about the vulnerabilities of the model results.
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Infectious Disease Transmission Models for Decision-Makers
Johns Hopkins UniversityÜber diesen Kurs
Some basic knowledge about infectious diseases and public health, but no expectation of expertise. This course has no equations.
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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
Some basic knowledge about infectious diseases and public health, but no expectation of expertise. This course has no equations.
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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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Until you try, it seem unachievable. Thank you Coursera, thank you John Hopkins University for this.
A nice course to be exposed to the role of Model Studies in Policy/Decision Making
what a tremendous course most of knowledge we have learned from this. We request to all my dear colleagues to take this course for knowledge gaining about infection
As a contact tracer I really enjoyed learning about this subject matter and in particular how public health policy is shaped
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