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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

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.

SG

Apr 30, 2023

Comprehensive and thought-provoking. Recommended to everyone with an interest in Public Health Policy.

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By Jose V

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Sep 19, 2022

The course was easy to understand. But it took for me more time than 4 hours.

By LinuxAndThings

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Oct 25, 2023

Informative course that gives you the basics on infectious disease modelling

By Bryan G L

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Jun 17, 2025

this shit showed me the importance of knowing about infectious diseases.

By Lisa K

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Mar 24, 2023

It was easy to follow and understand the information as it was presented

By nino g

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Sep 6, 2022

Great opportunity to learn this interesting course. Thanks a lot.

By Alex-Franky D N

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Aug 18, 2022

Very helpful course. Thanks to the instructors for their good job!

By PAULINE L A

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Mar 9, 2023

The course content well spelt out and facilitators quite explicit

By Giovanni G

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Oct 29, 2022

Thanks for the building blocks in modeling infectious diseases

By Amanda R

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Aug 13, 2022

Very Informative and able to use to inform my work. Thank you!

By Whsyeena F K

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Aug 6, 2022

The courses have been great and very informative. Thank You.

By Edouardo E

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Sep 25, 2022

Very instructive course. I learnt alot thank you very much

By Aung T S

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Sep 6, 2022

It is a great introduction for learning research purposes.

By Emebet D

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Dec 24, 2022

Very useful information! I enjoyed this course! Thank you!

By A L

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Aug 13, 2022

The course is very informative and interesting. Thanks.

By khurram a

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Aug 8, 2022

Excellent Course and failitators were also very good.

By Álvaro F

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Oct 21, 2024

Muy bien estructurado y fácil de seguir y comprender

By Tony G

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Apr 19, 2023

helpful for master of public health and epidemiology

By Muhammad S

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Sep 30, 2024

Most important course for the health professionals

By Don A

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Aug 18, 2022

Knowledge worth having especially in these times.

By HERBERT O

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Aug 10, 2023

Rich content, well-structured and very relevant

By musa k

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Jan 11, 2023

The course was well structured and informative.

By Daouda L G

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Nov 11, 2023

Wonderfull and well organized course. Congrats

By Mohammad S

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Dec 16, 2022

Thanks for your perfect and useful course.

By Ruben A R

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Feb 9, 2025

The course was easy to listen and follow!

By Diwas N

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Oct 8, 2022

This courses is very useful every person