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About the Course

During the COVID-19 pandemic, both the promise and perils of using infectious disease transmission models to make public health policy decisions became clearer than ever. Optimal use of modeled output requires that public health policy makers be informed consumers of models, that they understand the strengths and limitations of possible approaches, and they know the right questions to ask about the vulnerabilities of the model results. This course aims to provide anyone who makes decisions about public health policies and programs with a clear understanding of how infectious disease transmission models work, the various types and functions, and how they can be appropriately used to make decisions. There is no requirement that students have any prior background in infectious disease models and the course does not include any equations. Anyone with a basic background in public health and infectious diseases with an interest in learning more about infectious disease models will benefit from this course. In this course, participants will review the basics of infectious disease transmission models, including comparisons to other types of predictions used in daily life and an overview of the key components of a model and modeling structure. Next, participants will delve into the types of infectious disease models: forecasting, inferential, and theoretical models. Then, participants will learn about assessing whether a model is useful, reasonable and relevant, as well as the vulnerabilities of these models. These concepts will be applied to case studies of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2014-2016 and the COVID-19 pandemic. The course will be rounded out with a review of how models inform policy decisions, including major sources of uncertainty for decision making. Learners who complete this course will have a broad view of infectious disease transmission models, how to assess the usefulness of a given model, and how these models inform policy decisions. Who should take this course? -Public health policy makers -Anyone interested in learning about how infectious disease transmission models can guide public health policy The development of this training was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. We are grateful to Coursera for waiving enrollment fees through 2025....

Top reviews

JK

Mar 10, 2023

It was interesting down to the last piece of lecture, excellent explanations for the complex problems.

VW

Aug 13, 2022

I truly liked taking this course. I really learned a lot about Infectious Disease Transmission Models and so much more. This course was very interesting.

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By JESCA B

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Aug 20, 2022

am awesome course.thank you for the input

By Muhammad I

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Aug 19, 2022

Thank you for the very informative course

By david m

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Mar 6, 2023

Great concepts with great presentations

By Isabel S O

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Oct 13, 2022

excelent course, thank you very much.

By Tariq A

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Aug 22, 2022

Course was awesome and learnt a lot.

By Perpetual N

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Dec 12, 2024

This course is absolutely impactful.

By Kiwanuka N S

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Aug 31, 2022

it has been an eye opening course

By Susan C

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Apr 30, 2023

Very well presented. Thank you!

By Veera M

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Nov 12, 2022

Very useful for our profession.

By VISHAL B

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Oct 14, 2022

EXCILLENT COURSE FOR KNOWLEDGE

By Iyanna M

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Nov 19, 2023

Amazing well explained Course!

By Rafiul H

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Aug 26, 2023

This is an excellent course

By Giselle E E

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Feb 20, 2023

That was a great refresher!

By Chidubem O

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Nov 11, 2022

Well taught and informative

By Esther H

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Apr 21, 2025

Very interesting course.

By Dr U M

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Dec 11, 2024

nicely structured course

By Dr. H P A

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Aug 20, 2023

A Very insightful course

By Sidra k

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Aug 14, 2022

very informative course.

By Cheryl T

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Jan 3, 2024

Very well-paced course.

By Wendell M

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Nov 6, 2022

Very informative course

By NOEL G P

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Apr 19, 2024

VERY CHALLENGING TOPIC

By hetal p

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Mar 6, 2023

good to know in detail

By Leslie R L

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Dec 13, 2022

very nice course

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Aug 11, 2022

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By Evaluation R

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Aug 8, 2022

EXCELLENT! Thank you!