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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

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