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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
The profession of public health demands the application of knowledge, abilities, and skills to programs, policies, and research. We contribute to building capacity by providing the necessary resources and tools for advancing effective public health and enhancing the health of individuals and communities. Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection online certification is taught by Dr. Richard J Pinder, Director of Undergraduate Public Health Education, and designed by the Imperial College London, which Coursera delivers.
Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection online training provides an overview of the scope, principles, and complexities of health protection within the context of public health practice. Aspirants will be familiarized with real-world public health experience and extensive academic knowledge which includes fundamentals of public health and water management , sanitation, and health (WASH) based interventions. Applicants will be introduced to the science and principles of practical microbiology, before delving into vaccines, incident management, and the threat posed by a vast array of man-made and natural environmental threats and, more.
The Highlights
- Shareable Certificate of Completion
- 8 Hours to Complete
- Course Videos & Readings
- Quizzes
- Graded Assignments
- Graded Programming Assignments
- 100% Online Content
- Flexible Deadlines
Programme Offerings
- video lectures
- subtitles
- 100% online content
- Learning resources
- practice quizzes
- Graded Assignments
- Accessible on mobile devices.
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | Coursera |
The fees for the course Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection is -
| Head | Amount in INR |
| 1 month | Rs. 3,277 |
| 3 month | Rs. 6,554 |
| 6 month | Rs. 9,831 |
What you will learn
After completing the Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection certification course, applicants will gain a comprehensive understanding of using health intelligence data to characterize and prioritize actions for critical stakeholders, articulate, analyze, and learn about the challenges by applying the principles. Candidates will comprehend how to design effective interventions using the theory of behavior change. Individuals will understand assessing both operational and strategic health protection threats in order to recommend appropriate management actions and reflect on professional skills, attitudes, and behavior.
Who it is for
The Syllabus
Videos
- Meet the Team (Optional): Richard Pinder
- Meet the Team (Optional): Samantha Alvarez Madrazo
- Meet the Team (Optional): Lisa Danquah
- Meet the Team (Optional): Helen Skirrow
- Introduction to the course
- An introduction to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
- WASH: The right to clean water
- WASH: Working towards universal sanitation
- WASH: Hygiene and hand washing
- SHEWA-B: WASH in Bangladesh
- Unintended consequences: Hepatitis C in Egypt
- Practitioner interview: Working in WASH
Readings
- About Imperial College London & the FPHP Team
- How to be successful in this course
- Grading policy
- Glossary
- The importance of water and sanitation
- Conclusions on WASH
- Vectors, pathogens and microbiology
- Waterborne and foodborne diseases
- The terminology of infection
- Transmission and infection in communicable disease
- Intervention opportunities
- Conclusion
Practice Exercises
- Pathogens and disease15m
- Dynamics and control of infectious diseases
Videos
- An introduction to vaccines
- Vaccine preventable disease
- Vaccines in childhood
- Health protection outbreak scenario: Introduction
- Health protection outbreak scenario: Conclusion
- Vulnerability in communicable disease
- Conclusion to the module
Readings
- Welcome to the module
- Vaccinology and key terminology
- The global impact of vaccinations
- The MMR controversy and the anti-vaccination movement
- Conclusions on vaccination
- Defining and detecting outbreaks
- Notification of infectious disease and case definitions
- Public health actions
- Outbreak response to norovirus
- An overview of incident mangement
Practice Exercise
- Health protection in practice
Videos
- The challenge of air quality
- Air quality in London
- Air quality in industrialising countries
- Fukushima and the public health impacts
- Conclusions to the course
Readings
- An introduction to strategic health protection
- Air quality work in the European Union
- An introduction to CBRNe
- Fukushima and long term health consequences
- Major incidents and emergency planning
- Course 5: The Emerging Public Health Practitioner