Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Public Health Dimensions

Name: Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Public Health Dimensions
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Author: The University of Sydney

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Anglais

16 h

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Sur www.futurelearn.com

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4 séquences
Niveau Introductif
Débute le 15 octobre 2017
Clôture le 12 novembre 2017

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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.

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Intervenants

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.

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The University of Sydney is one of the world’s leading comprehensive research and teaching universities, consistently ranked in the top 1 percent of universities in the world. In 2015, we were ranked 45 in the QS World University Rankings, and 100 percent of our research was rated at above, or well above, world standard in the Excellence in Research for Australia report.

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