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About the Course

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. This course aims to provide anyone who makes decisions about public health policies and programs with a clear understanding of how infectious disease transmission models work, the various types and functions, and how they can be appropriately used to make decisions. There is no requirement that students have any prior background in infectious disease models and the course does not include any equations. Anyone with a basic background in public health and infectious diseases with an interest in learning more about infectious disease models will benefit from this course. In this course, participants will review the basics of infectious disease transmission models, including comparisons to other types of predictions used in daily life and an overview of the key components of a model and modeling structure. Next, participants will delve into the types of infectious disease models: forecasting, inferential, and theoretical models. Then, participants will learn about assessing whether a model is useful, reasonable and relevant, as well as the vulnerabilities of these models. These concepts will be applied to case studies of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2014-2016 and the COVID-19 pandemic. The course will be rounded out with a review of how models inform policy decisions, including major sources of uncertainty for decision making. Learners who complete this course will have a broad view of infectious disease transmission models, how to assess the usefulness of a given model, and how these models inform policy decisions. Who should take this course? -Public health policy makers -Anyone interested in learning about how infectious disease transmission models can guide public health policy The development of this training was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. We are grateful to Coursera for waiving enrollment fees through 2025....

Top reviews

SK

Aug 8, 2022

As a risk communications practitoner, I highly recommend this refresher course to my colleagues. Thanks JHU and Coursera for making available to the public. My appreciation.

PV

Jun 2, 2023

It was a real experience inspite of being online classes had good speaker who were great mentors ,knowledge based practical examples . Thnaks to coursera for it

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By Fernanda D O

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Nov 27, 2022

Very interesting and didactic. Thank you very much to this training in Infectious Disease Transmission Models it is very useful.

By Margaret T

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Aug 30, 2022

As a contact tracer I really enjoyed learning about this subject matter and in particular how public health policy is shaped

By Crystal B

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Aug 15, 2022

Professor Emily Gurly does a great job outlining the key elements to understand models of infectious disease.

By Sundar R

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Aug 16, 2022

Excellent course for beginners in Health ..... Excellent Materials and explanations ..... Thanks to all....

By REBEKAH H

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Dec 8, 2022

it was clear and easy to understand. I highly recommend this course to the epidemiology and MPH students.

By Gabriella I V

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Aug 30, 2022

interesting class helped expand my knowledge and understanding of models and how to apply them in practice

By Philip M O

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Jul 23, 2023

I learned a from this course about the different infection control models and how they are link together.

By Maria G V

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Aug 30, 2022

Excelente estrategia de aprendizaje en relación a los modelos de transmisión de enfermedades infecciosas.

By Stavros A G

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May 1, 2023

Comprehensive and thought-provoking. Recommended to everyone with an interest in Public Health Policy.

By David A G C

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Mar 10, 2023

It was interesting down to the last piece of lecture, excellent explanations for the complex problems.

By Arinze E

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Feb 20, 2023

Thank You, Dr. Emily Hurley and others for this relevant information and policy making tool.

Thank You

By Ayodeji A

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Sep 12, 2022

Until you try, it seem unachievable. Thank you Coursera, thank you John Hopkins University for this.

By Martha L M

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Aug 20, 2022

Wonderful information as always!! thank you for sharing your knowledge and teaching us so well

By Sabarish R

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Aug 25, 2022

An excellent course for begginers in public health. Well explained and understanding is easy.

By GIUSEPPE P

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Aug 29, 2022

Good basics for general purpose epidemiologic modeling of infectious diseases transmission

By an_mary_luis08@hotmail.com

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Aug 21, 2022

very rich data and information from a prespectice of Pulic health .amazing sesison

By Blanca R

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Aug 18, 2022

Es muy interesante. Pero, deseo darme de baja y no lo he logrado. Podrian ayudarme?

By zubayer A

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Nov 19, 2022

Nice course.

Get good idea about. infectious disease model and using these models.

By Bethany B

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Aug 16, 2022

Great examples, like the small bites of information followed with practice quizes.

By hala s

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Feb 19, 2023

Thank you for valuable course.

please send me all updated courses

Dr. Hala SHIHA

By Jose V

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Sep 19, 2022

The course was easy to understand. But it took for me more time than 4 hours.

By LinuxAndThings

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Oct 25, 2023

Informative course that gives you the basics on infectious disease modelling

By Lisa K

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Mar 24, 2023

It was easy to follow and understand the information as it was presented

By nino g

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Sep 6, 2022

Great opportunity to learn this interesting course. Thanks a lot.

By Alex D

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Aug 18, 2022

Very helpful course. Thanks to the instructors for their good job!