Week 1 Lessons learned in global health: a brief history of endemic and emerging infectious diseases
Complete the following before the first day of class, Tuesday August 23:
Reading assignments:
- Introduction “The Coming Plague” by L. Garrett
- Towards the endgame and beyond
- Driving improvements in emerging disease surveillance
Watch short videos (~5 min each):
MOOC week 1:
- video 2 macro and micro parasites
- video 3 infection and disease
- video 4 transmission types
- video 5 reproductive number
- video 6 epidemic curve
- optional: video 1 what is an epidemic?
Read the following for Thursday August 26:
- The United Nations Millennium Development Goals – look over icons and list of 8 Millennium Development Goals and read the 2013 fact sheets for each goal
- The United National Sustainable Development Goals – click on the icons on the right to read more about each goal
- A few short articles from the Special Issue of Science on Global Health:
- Vertical health programmes
- optional: The Gambia vignette mentioned in previous article
Useful Info: Following the first week of class, here is a list of terms and concepts that you should become familiar with and be comfortable using.
The research focus disease list sign up is now posted. Pick your pathogen quickly but carefully, it’ll be yours all semester.
- Additional resources you may be interested in (optional):
- Link to IHME data visualizations – these are interactive and fun to mess around with and may be a good resource later, perhaps when you’re doing research for your research focus project in this class.