Country: Germany
Organization: University of Heidelberg
Start date: 27 Feb 2023
End date: 10 Mar 2023
Registration deadline: 24 Feb 2023
Content Overview
This short course provides in-depth knowledge on principles and strategies of disease control and equips students with the necessary skills to successfully establish, strengthen and systematically review disease control programmes. The course mainly focuses on disease control in disadvantaged populations of developing countries. It draws on local, regional and global policies and strategies to analyse strengths and weaknesses in disease control. The course places special emphasis on strengthening multi-disciplinary and inter-sectoral collaboration and effectively involving communities and patients in disease control programmes.
Course Topics
- Global Burden of Disease
- Principles and strategies of disease control, elimination and eradication programs
- Communicable disease control and the role of primary health care (PHC) in control strategies
- Non-communicable disease control and the role of health promotion in control strategies
- The application of surveillance systems, monitoring and evaluation in disease control programmes
- Outbreak control
- Dengue control: Clinical and vector control strategies
- Polio eradication: The last mile
- HIV/AIDS control: Pattern of the epidemic, case studies on HIV prevention from Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and disease management strategies and their application in sub-Saharan Africa
- Helminth control
- Rabies control: Addressing a complex zoonosis
- Malaria control: Clinical and vector control strategies
- Human African Trypanosomiasis control
- Tobacco control
- Diabetes control in sub-Saharan Africa
- Case studies in communicable and non-communicable disease control from the home countries of course participants
- The impact of the epidemiological transition for disease control programmes in developing countries
- Disease control and human resources, and the role of formal and informal health services in the health system
How to register
https://application.iph.emundus.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=1079