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Science Matters Lets Talk About Covid-19
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The Syllabus
Video
- Welcome to Science Matters: Let's talk COVID-19
Readings
- Let's talk about COVID-19
- Contributor Bios
- Where to go to find the latest information on COVID-19
Videos
- Sit.Rep #1 with Prof Neil Ferguson [Feb 4th]
- Sit.Rep #2 with Prof Neil Ferguson [Feb 12th]
- Sit.Rep #3 with Prof Neil Ferguson [Feb 18th]
- Sit.Rep #4 with Prof Neil Ferguson [Feb 26th]
- Sit.Rep #5 with Prof Neil Ferguson [March 9th]
- Sit. Rep #6 with Prof Steven Riley [March 24th]
- Sit. Rep #7 with Dr Samir Bhatt [April 6th]
- Sit. Rep #8 with Prof Steven Riley [April 9th]
Readings
- Key definitions in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
- The MRC GIDA Report on Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) to Reduce COVID19 Mortality and Healthcare Demand
- The MRC GIDA Report on Exiting Social Distancing in China
- The MRC GIDA Report on Number of Infections and Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in Europe
Videos
- Welcome to How to Forecast an Epidemic
- The Basic Reproduction Number
- The Case Fatality Ratio and the Fatality Rate of Infections
- Phylogenetics
- International Surveillance of COVID-19
Readings
- The MRC GIDA Report on the Transmissibility of COVID-19
- The MRC GIDA Report on the Severity of COVID-19
- The MRC GIDA Report on the Symptom Progression of COVID-19
- The Case Fatality Ratio of Influenza A(H1N1pdm09), a Systematic Review (BMJ)
- The MRC GIDA Report on the Phylogenetics of COVID-19
- The MRC GIDA Report on the Relative Sensitivity of International Surveillance of COVID-19
- Textbooks, Journals Articles, and other MOOCs
Videos
- Welcome to Health Systems and Economic Impacts
- Capacity Planning, Efficiency and Opportunity Costs
- The International Health Regulation Metric (IHR): Predicting Emergency Preparedness
- Financing Epidemic Responses: Lessons from the West Africa Ebola Outbreak
- Low and Middle Income Countries: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Pandemics
- How Governments Respond to Pandemics
Readings
- The J-IDEA Hospital Planner
- Using Science to Inform Policy: Scientists Provide Evidence at the House of Lords
- Textbooks, Planning Tools and Journals Article
Videos
- Intro to Community Participation and Engagement
- Community Engagement
- Misinformation
- Podcast: Perspectives on Community Engagement in the UK
- The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Perspectives and Lessons for COVID-19
- What is the right level of community participation: Arnstein's ladder of citizen participation
Readings
- WHO Strategy and Community Engagement
- Community Engagement: What is next?
- Further Reading on Misinformation
- Let’s look at some community Engagement Research PERC reports
- Follow-up about PERC Reports
- Further Learning: Behaviour Change in Public Health Practice
- The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Perspectives and Lessons for COVID-19
- Further Learnings from Ebola
- Participatory approaches: Introduction to Theory and Methods
- Explaining the underpinnings of community Engagement: Doing, Knowing, Changing: How do we think about participation?
Videos
- Intro to the Virology of COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2: Understanding the Virus to Estimate Risk
- The General Structure of Viruses and the Differences between nCOV-2 and Influenza
- The Genetics of SARS-CoV-2
- The Replication Cycle of Coronaviruses: How The Virus Can Change over Time
- PCRs and Antibody Tests: What They Mean (and What They Don't)
Readings
- Intro to the Virology of COVID-19
- Further Reading on the Risk of Coronaviruses
- The Virology of Coronaviruses and Influenza Viruses
- The SARS-CoV-2 Genome
- Coronavirus Replication: Understanding the Principles
- How Testing Approaches Can Influence the Epidemiology of COVID-19
Videos
- The Clinical Features of COVID-19
- Treatment of COVID-19
Readings
- Intro to the Clinical Presentations of COVID-19
- Further readings on the clinical features of COVID-19
- Emerging therapies: Remdesivir, dexamethasone and more
Videos
- A Final Overview: The Key Concepts
- Evolving Research, Shifting Focus, and New Questions: Some Insights
Reading
- A Concluding Note from your Course Leads
Instructors
Articles
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