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Introduction to Outbreak Investigation – Infection Prevention and Control Measures

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Introduction to Outbreak Investigation – Infection Prevention and Control Measures
Date 13 Jan 2025 - 7 Mar 2025
Location Online
Host university Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Mode Online
WP WP 2
Target groups Master students, PhD students
Contact person Ashley Haberman-Lawson - osh-munich@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Reference code EUG2_T2_1_0032
Type of event Course
Recognition Transcript of records - ECTS
Language English
Recruitment of participants First Come First Served
Number of open spots 50
Isced fields of study 0912 - Medicine, 098 - Interdisciplinary programmes involving broad field 09: Health and welfare
  • case-based online self-paced learning course
  • students will gain a basic knowledge of the disease outbreak investigation process using the COVID-19 pandemic as an example.  
  • 3 ECTS

Content and Methodology

The world is facing a new era of emerging infectious diseases (e.g., SARS-CoV-2) that can threaten human health due to their complexity and devastating impact on society and the socio-economic development of each country. This pandemic has highlighted the importance of training human resources in public health to recognise, monitor, and treat positive COVID-19 cases and to communicate to the population the importance of adhering to the containment and mitigation measures recommended at the local, regional, and global levels.

In this sense, this course is aimed at students of related disciplines to provide basic knowledge of the disease outbreak investigation process using the COVID-19 pandemic as an example. Theoretical foundation will be provided to participants to support outbreak management in their local communities.

The course content is developed using a case-based problem divided into two main chapters:

  1. Introduction to Outbreak Investigation and
  2. Infection Prevention and Control in Acute Respiratory Infections for Health Workers in Low and Middle-Income Countries.

The course is 8 weeks long, with each week containing one unit of interactive video content, mandatory lectures, activities, quizzes, assessments, and the requirements listed at the beginning of each unit. 

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