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Epidemics IV
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Chinese
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Communication (Communicating Disease Risk)
- Risk Communication in Disease Outbreaks
- Communicating Infectious Diseases
- Why Doesn't Public Follow Health Advice
Week 2: Communication (Communicating Disease Risk) cont.
- Perceptions of Risk and The Idea of Risk Communication
- Perceptions of Risk
- Risk Communication
Week 3: Supplementary Module on Next Generation Informatics for Global Health
- From Disease Tracking to Disease Understanding Using Internet Data
Prerequisite
Instructors
Gabriel M. Leung
Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Joseph Wu
Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Guan Yi
Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Malik Peiris
Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Marc Lipsitch
Professor
Harvard University
Tommy Lam
Assistant Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Kwok-Yung Yuen
Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Mark Jit
Professor
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Maria Huachen Zhu
Associate Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Benjamin Cowling
Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Thomas Abraham
Honorary Associate Professor
The University of Hong Kong
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