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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

SS

May 4, 2024

Covers the basics of infectious disease transmission models. Some of the case studies were difficult to follow as they assumed prior knowledge of the disease transmission terms.

SK

Aug 9, 2022

A​s a risk communications practitoner, I highly recommend this refresher course to my colleagues. Thanks JHU and Coursera for making available to the public. My appreciation.

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By Atik U

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Oct 14, 2023

This course is good.

By louis a m l

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Aug 22, 2022

Interesting course.

By Muhammad S H R

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Mar 20, 2024

Amazing experience

By Binh P

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Sep 18, 2023

outstanding course

By Morgan M

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Feb 3, 2023

it's very helpful.

By Thilini M

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Nov 10, 2022

Greate experience

By Nida M A

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Oct 25, 2022

Very informative

By Ijirotimi G M

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Sep 25, 2022

very informative

By Marwan A

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Aug 11, 2025

Very good course

By Archana M

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Jul 13, 2023

Wonderful course

By Pablo A G

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Oct 7, 2022

thanks for all

By Umair R

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Aug 24, 2022

great exposure

By Julia M

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Aug 6, 2022

muy buen curso

By Priyanka D

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Jan 25, 2025

Great course

By Rawan f a

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Oct 20, 2024

What are the

By Joseph A

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Aug 12, 2022

Great course

By Juan C G

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Aug 5, 2022

muyMuy bueno

By Naseeb D

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Oct 2, 2024

Nice course

By Lizzie M M O

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Oct 31, 2022

Excelente

By Takahide M

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Aug 14, 2022

very hard.

By May i a

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May 18, 2025

Very good

By ESTHER E

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Apr 11, 2025

fantastic

By peerless d p

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Apr 11, 2023

thank you