Overall Aim: Explore the core knowledge and skills necessary for the application of communicable disease control activities in a variety of settings & populations.
Upon successful completion of the module a student should be able to:
- Differentiate the key mechanisms of communicable disease transmission, and to propose realistic public health prevention and control strategies.
- Apply and evaluate the principles of surveillance and the characteristics of different surveillance systems, their strengths and weaknesses, their usefulness, and their application to disease control.
- Evaluate policies and programmes used in the prevention and control of important infectious diseases, and the issues involved in their implementation and evaluation.
- Apply epidemiological methods to the investigation and management of outbreaks.
- Examine the issues involved in managing and evaluating vaccination programmes.
- Question the appropriateness of standard communicable disease control strategies for vulnerable, marginalised, and at-risk populations, and to propose alternative strategies.
- Evaluate communicable disease control strategies using ethical frameworks.
- Design communicable disease control strategies suited to the student’s own country or work situation.