The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health announces a new executive education program entitled "Notorious Pathogens of Infectious Diseases: Detection, Treatment, Control and Eradication."
The global world makes infectious diseases a reality —one all have to contend with— and, because of interconnectedness, every country, health system, hospital, and overseas employer must be prepared for the next pandemic. Yet, many are not. Notorious Pathogens of Infectious Diseases has been designed to give participants the most current information needed to formulate an action plan in preparation for the world’s next outbreak.
Course objectives include:
- The parameters involved in evaluating a large scale public health program to control an infectious disease;
- Whether your hospital or health system is really ready to respond to the outbreak of infectious disease and develop strategies to strengthen responses to outbreaks;
- The components of your system that should be evaluated and strengthened in order to provide adequate diagnosis;
- How to improve diagnostics, treatment, and vaccination rates by incorporating the latest public health updates on infectious disease pathogens with current research; and
- How to apply best practices from the West Africa Ebola virus outbreak to your clinic, hospital or organization.
Daily themes will include outbreak updates, vaccinations, infection control, drug therapy resistance, and eradication. The course has been designed for mid- to senior-level clinicians or policy makers in health care and infectious diseases, Ministers of Health, State Department administrators, multi-national corporations or development agencies with large overseas populations, or large health systems or hospitals.
To register, or to review the agenda and learning objectives, please visit the course website at course website. A course flyer can be accessed here.
