What can we do to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases from becoming epidemics or pandemic? In this course, you’ll learn the facts about infectious diseases and medical responses. We'll focus on the public health laws and policies that provide the framework for effective prevention, like quarantine laws, drug development policies, and bioterrorism and biodefense.
Epidemics, Pandemics and Outbreaks
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University of Pittsburgh
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1Week 1: Introduction
Welcome to Week One! This week’s lesson immerses you in the world of epidemics, pandemics and outbreaks and our efforts to prevent and respond to them. It will prepare you to engage in depth with the lessons that are coming up in weeks 2-4: "Understanding Infectious Diseases," "Global Health Security," and "Local Countermeasures."
13 个视频 （总计 41 分钟）, 2 个阅读材料, 5 个测验
13 个视频
Week 1 Video 1: What Are Epidemics, Pandemics & Outbreaks?7分钟
Week 1 Video 2: Why Epidemics Happen9分钟
Week 1 Video 3: How Do We Respond?5分钟
Week 1 Video 4: Who is Responding?4分钟
Week 1 Video 5: What’s Law Got to Do With It?5分钟
If an Outbreak Occurs What are the Roles of the State and Federal Governments in Stopping it?1分钟
Why Did Some States Impose Quarantines in the 2014 Ebola Outbreak While Other States Didn't?1分钟
What Role Does Advocacy Play in Funding?分钟
What Role Does the Biological Weapons Convention Play?分钟
What is an Emergency Use Authorization for a Drug or Vaccine?分钟
What is the Role of Public Education in Containing an Outbreak?分钟
What Effect do Outbreaks Have on Funding Priorities?1分钟
2 个阅读材料
Hot Topics for Advanced Instruction: Vaccination Rates and Outbreaks10分钟
Additional Resources10分钟
5 个练习
Week 1: Quiz 114分钟
Week 1: Quiz 214分钟
Week 1: Quiz 38分钟
Week 1: Quiz 48分钟
Week 1: Quiz 56分钟
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2Week 2: Understanding Infectious Diseases
Welcome to Week Two! This week’s lesson provides you with the tools needed to understand the world of infectious disease. It will allow you to develop a context of knowledge and familiarity with the concepts that inform legal and public health response strategies to outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. What you learn here will be drawn upon in weeks 3-4: “Global Health Security” and “Local Countermeasures.”
23 个视频 （总计 63 分钟）, 3 个测验
23 个视频
Week 2 Video 1: What causes infection? What is an infectious disease?11分钟
Week 2 Video 2: How do infections spread?4分钟
Week 2 Video 3: Influenza and Vaccines4分钟
Week 2 Video 4: The Story of Typhoid Mary3分钟
Week 2 Video 5: Ebola5分钟
Week 2 Video 6: Leprosy and Tuberculosis6分钟
Hot Topics for Advanced Instruction: Week 2 Video 7: Biosecurity and Bioterrorism8分钟
What is antibiotic resistance?1分钟
What is the threat posed by antibiotic resistant bacteria?分钟
Is Overuse of Antibiotics Causing Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria?分钟
What are we Doing to Reduce Overuse Antibiotics?2分钟
What about Developing new Antibiotics?分钟
What Effect is Globalization Having on the Problem of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria?分钟
What Kinds of Biosafety Gear do Reasearchers Use When They're Working with Dangerous Viruses and Bacteria in the Lab?1分钟
How Does the Federal Government Promote Research and Development of New Drugs and Vaccines?2分钟
What is the Animal Rule?1分钟
How Were Researchers Able to Produce an Experimental Vaccine Within a Few Months of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak?分钟
Could We Produce Enough Vaccine for a Pandemic Flu?分钟
Why Should Healthy People Get Vaccinated for The Flu or Other Diseases?分钟
Why are We Seeing Resurgence of Old Diseases for Which We Have Vaccines Like Measles?1分钟
What Are Some of the Obstacles to Increasing Our Vaccination Rates?分钟
Are Vaccinations Important in a Pandemic?分钟
3 个练习
Week 2: Quiz 16分钟
Week 2: Quiz 26分钟
Week 2: Quiz 34分钟
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3Week 3: Global Health Security
Welcome to Week 3! Now that you are more familiar with the nature and history of infectious disease, consider the following quote from Natalie Angier, American nonfiction writer and a science journalist for The New York Times: “Today, diseases as common as the cold and as rare as Ebola are circling the globe with near telephonic speed, making long-distance connections and intercontinental infections almost as if by satellite. You needn't even bother to reach out and touch someone. If you live, if you're homeothermic biomass, you will be reached and touched. Microbes are, after all, members of the most ancient, zealous and Darwinically gilded 24-7 delivery consortium. They travel by land, sea, air, nose, blows, glove, love, sewage, steerage, rat backs, hat racks, uncooked burritos, overlooked mosquitoes. And, oh, how they love the global village.” Indeed, the same forces of globalization that have lowered barriers to global communication, travel, and commerce have amplified the ability for infectious diseases to spread internationally. In many ways, defense against this common threat is only as strong as each nation’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats, and the collective ability of the international community to coordinate these capacities multilaterally.
11 个视频 （总计 13 分钟）, 1 个阅读材料, 3 个测验
11 个视频
Week 3 Video 1: Globalization and Pandemic Threats1分钟
Week 3 Video 2: Legal Frameworks to Build National Capacity Globally to Combat Infectious Diseases with Pandemic Potential2分钟
Week 3 Video 3: The WHO Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework1分钟
Why Don't Most Countries Make or Use Biological Weapons?分钟
What is the Dual Use Research of Concern in the Biological Weapons Context?分钟
What are Some of the Ways the United States Protects Itself Against Bioterrorism?2分钟
Do These Biodefense Programs Protect us Against Pandemics in Addition to Bioterrorism?分钟
How do We Decide Which Bioterrorism Threats to Prepare For?分钟
How Does Biowatch Detect Bioterrorism Attacks?分钟
How is Biodefense Funded?分钟
1 个阅读材料
Hot Topics for Advanced Instruction: The Economics of Developing Emergency Medical Countermeasures10分钟
3 个练习
Week 3: Quiz 16分钟
Week 3: Quiz 210分钟
Week 3: Quiz 36分钟
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4Week 4: Local Countermeasures
Welcome to Week Four! This week’s lesson introduces you to the legal interventions available to state and local public health practitioners to combat epidemics, pandemics and outbreaks. In addition to the law, we will look at some of the ethical and practical issues associated with disease reporting requirements, the effect of a declaration of an emergency, travel restrictions, quarantine and isolation.
8 个视频 （总计 38 分钟）, 1 个阅读材料, 4 个测验
8 个视频
Week 4 Video 1: What is public health and public health law?3分钟
Week 4 Video 2: What Authority Does the Government Have to Enact Laws Pertaining to Epidemics, Outbreaks and Pandemics?6分钟
Week 4 Video 3: What legal Interventions Can be Used to Fight Infectious Disease?9分钟
Week 4 Video 4: Isolation and Quarantine15分钟
Why Do We Need International Laws And Policies?分钟
What Role do the International Health Regulations Play?分钟
What is the New Global Health Security Agenda?分钟
1 个阅读材料
Hot Topic for Advanced Instruction: Constitutional Considerations and Ethical Implications of Mandatory Vaccination Requirements10分钟
4 个练习
Week 4: Quiz 16分钟
Week 4: Quiz 210分钟
Week 4: Quiz 310分钟
Week 4: Quiz 410分钟
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创建者 DA•Dec 8th 2015
Excellent course! Concise and very different from other Epidemiology-type courses. Videos short yet very informative. VERY ENGAGING. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
创建者 AM•Jun 12th 2018
It was an exceptionally very educative course,which was presented with modern day case studies and activities. Good Stuff!!!!!!!!!!
讲师
Elena A. Baylis
Associate ProfessorLaw
Elizabeth Ferrell Bjerke, JD
Director, JD/MPH ProgramHealth Policy and Management
Amesh A. Adalja, MD, FACP
Senior AssociateUPMC Center for Health Security
Ryan Morhard
Guest Instructor关于 University of Pittsburgh
Leader in Education | Pioneer in Research | Partner in Regional Development
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