Modeling of Infectious Diseases

 

What you will learn

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Build a model using flow charts
  • Identify how flow charts are translated into ordinary differential equations
  • Recognize techniques for deriving formulas for the basic reproduction number, R0, and the effective reproduction number, R
  • Identify the principles of estimating R0 and R from data
  • Recognize the SIR model
  • Identify how public health interventions can be modeled using flow charts

Description

We live in a highly interconnected world, where infectious diseases find opportunities to spread globally, like never before in the history of mankind. This raises new challenges in public health for epidemiologists, medical doctors and biologists alike, engaged in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Mathematical and computational models can contribute in this cross-disciplinary, concerted effort. They can make short-term predictions on how epidemics progress, help analyze scenarios on epidemic outcome and inform about the impact of public health interventions.

Format

This MOOC is composed of 5 teaching chapters. Each chapter has 1 to 7 sequences. Each sequence consists of a video of about 10 minutes and a MCQ so that students can test their knowledge. The videos are in English with French and English subtitles.

Prerequisites

We recommend a good scientific background (such as a bachelor of life science).


https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/modeling-infectious-diseases/

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