The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies, has set up a free online course on Coursera offered by Johns Hopkins University. The COVID-19 Contact Tracing course started May 28 and more than 363, 635 people have already enrolled.
According to the details posted on the website, the beginner-level course takes approximately five hours to complete. At the end, you earn a certificate which you can share. The course is 100% online so you learn at your own pace and works around your schedule.
Some of the things you will learn include the history of SARS-CoV-2, including the infectious period, the presentation of COVID-19, and evidence for how it is transmitted.
You will also learn how to define an infectious contact and timeline for public health intervention through contact tracing. The course will demonstrate the utility of case investigation and contact tracing, identify common barriers, and possible strategies to overcome them.
Course takers will also be presented with some ethical considerations around contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine. Some of the skill you will gain include ethics, active listening, public health, contact tracing, and epidemiology.
The top instructor is Emily Gurley, an associate scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She does three courses and has about 446, 849 learners, according to the website.
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