Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Public Health Dimensions
UNSW Sydney
This online course examined the key concepts relating to the management of biosecurity, bioterrorism and high risk biological agents. The course touched on the fundamental principles of disease investigation, public health techniques for understanding and responding to biological agent events, important historical examples of biosecurity and bioterrorism, the role of health intelligence, and on some of the policy, regulatory and ethical concerns related to biological agents.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
David J Heslop
Associate Professor in Public Health Security
UNSW Sydney
Raina MacIntyre
Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
UNSW Sydney
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the basic principles of infectious disease investigation, epidemiology and public health response.
- Explain the basic principles of communicable disease response.
- Reflect on the differences between different types of bioterrorism and biological agent outbreaks or events.
- Identify the most important public health concerns, and the general response, to biosecurity and bioterrorism events.
- Reflect on the importance of health intelligence for the investigation and management of biosecurity and bioterrorism events.
- Debate basic policy and ethical concerns relating to contemporary biosecurity.
Syllabus
- Basic concepts of infectious disease investigation
- Basic concepts of infectious disease epidemiology
- Basic concepts of infectious disease public health response
- Outline of communicable disease response
- Introduction to biosecurity
- Introduction to bioterrorism and biological agent outbreaks or events
- The general features of response to biosecurity and bioterrorism events
- Historical examples of biosecurity and bioterrorism events
- Health intelligence for the investigation and management of biosecurity and bioterrorism events
- Introduction to policy, regulatory and ethical concerns related to biosecurity and bioterrorism
Issued on 13th July 2017
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