Epidemics Courses and Certifications

Epidemics - the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

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Explore how infectious diseases spread and are controlled: pathogens and R0, host immunity, social networks, vaccination and herd immunity, drug resistance evolution, and digital disease surveillance.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Outbreaks and Epidemics

778 ratings at Coursera

Professional epidemiologists are often called on to investigate outbreaks and epidemics. This course serves as an introduction to the essentials of investigation, identifying pathogens, figuring out what's going on, reporting, and responding.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Investigating Epidemics like COVID-19: An Analyst's Guide

Investigate outbreaks step by step: analyze surveillance data, build epidemic curves, calculate secondary attack rates, and quantify exposure associations with odds ratios and confidence intervals.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Epidemics

235 ratings at Coursera

Learn the origins, spread and control of infectious disease epidemics through epidemiology, disease modeling, surveillance, vaccination, non-pharmaceutical interventions, and expert panels on risk communication.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Reflections from 40 Years Fighting International Epidemics

What's next is already here, we just haven't recognized it: study HIV, SARS, MERS, Ebola, Zika and COVID-19 to anticipate, recognize and act on epidemics.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Epidemics | 流行病学

Explore the science, prevention and control of epidemics in this free online course. In addition to lectures by leading scientists in this field from HKU, this course will feature panel discussions wi

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Epidemics I

Explore the science, prevention and control of epidemics in this free online course. In addition to lectures by leading scientists in this field from HKU, this course will feature a supplementary modu

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Epidemics II

Explore the science, prevention and control of epidemics in this free online course. In addition to lectures by leading scientists in this field from HKU, this course will feature a supplementary modu

• edX
• 3 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Epidemics IV

Explore the science, prevention and control of epidemics in this free online course. In addition to lectures by leading scientists in this field from HKU, this course will feature a supplementary modu

• edX
• 3 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Epidemics-Origins, Spread, Control and Communication

Trace epidemics from origin to control: pathogen emergence, infectious disease epidemiology and modelling, surveillance, non-pharmaceutical interventions, vaccination, and risk communication during outbreaks.

• edX
• 16 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $500.00
• 4 courses

Syphilis: From the "Great Pox" to the Modern Version - Epidemics in Western Society

An historical examination of how syphilis spread with war and challenged religious and humoral explanations of disease in early modern Europe.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Germ Theory of Disease - Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600

A history of how contagionism, microscopy, and hospital medicine enabled Pasteur’s and Koch’s germ theory and transformed vaccines, antiseptics, and pathogen research.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600

Explore the profound impact of epidemic diseases on Western society from bubonic plague to HIV/AIDS, examining public health evolution, medical ethics, and social responses.

• YouTube
• 20 hours 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Asiatic Cholera: Five Pandemics and Their Impact on 19th Century Society - Lecture 2

A history of cholera’s five pandemics, tracing its symptoms, social impact, and community reactions in nineteenth-century Western society.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Smallpox - From Endemic Disease to Eradication - Lecture 2

Trace smallpox’s rise in Europe and the New World, and the public controversies surrounding inoculation and Jenner’s vaccination.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video