With the rapid advance of technology and the rise of big data, twentieth-century health issues have become globalised. That makes global health security an issue of vital importance everywhere.

This four-week course from Taipei Medical University provides an overview of global health security and the policies and organisations that promote it.

Paying particular attention to the Global Health Security Agenda and the impact of COVID-19, you’ll learn how international cooperation can help prevent the spread of diseases and protect public health.

Unpack health policies including the GHSA and the PIP

You’ll start the course by tracing the history of international health regulations, and the organisations that determine them.

Next you’ll home in on two crucial contemporary policies: the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) framework.

You’ll examine the different goals of the two regulations, and some of the controversial issues they are tasked with resolving.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on global health governance

Over the four weeks of the course, you’ll focus on one particularly important case study: the COVID-19 pandemic.

As you explore changing approaches to infectious disease control, you’ll learn how the world’s experience of the pandemic has helped shape global health governance.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the knowledge you need to play your own part in tackling infectious diseases and fostering health security all around the world.