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Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Public Health Dimensions
Closed
Course
en
English
16 h
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- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on October 15, 2017
- Ends on November 12, 2017
Course details
Syllabus
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Explain the basic principles of infectious disease investigation, epidemiology and public health response.
- Explain the basic principles of communicable disease response.
- Reflect on the differences between different types of bioterrorism and biological agent outbreaks or events.
- Identify the most important public health concerns, and the general response, to biosecurity and bioterrorism events.
- Reflect on the importance of health intelligence for the investigation and management of biosecurity and bioterrorism events.
- Debate basic policy and ethical concerns relating to contemporary biosecurity.
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
David Heslop
My name is Dr David Heslop MD. I am an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. I have interests in CBRN medicine, and health systems design and research
David Muscatello
I am an epidemiologist with a primary focus on estimating the burden of influenza in the population, time series analysis in public health and syndromic surveillance and early outbreak detection.
Raina MacIntyre
Raina MacIntyre (MBBS Hons 1, M App Epid, PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM) is Head, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW and Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology.
Editor
The University of Sydney
Platform
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