Syllabus

• Week 1

  Making sense of COVID data, models and their visualisation

  • Welcome to the course!

    This activity introduces you to the course Health Emergency Response to a Pandemic. You also get to know the course's lead educators and introduce yourself to us!

  • Introduction to Week 1

    This activity introduces you to what you will be learning this week and who you will be learning with.

  • Healthcare data

    This activity introduces you to healthcare data and considerations with COVID-19 health data and utilisation. It also provides a healthcare use case.

  • Computational models and how to use them

    During the Covid pandemic, many scholars published papers with models that can predict, e.g., the number of positively tested individuals in two weeks. But what are those models? How do they work? Are they magic “crystal balls”?

  • Visualisations of COVID-19 data and models

    The availability of data and models changes the game in terms of how we can respond to a pandemic. This activity will guide you through various visualisation techniques that transform data into actionable information.

  • Wrap-up of Week 1

    A short recap of what you have learned during the week and a chance to quiz yourself on what you have learned during the week.

• Week 2

  Governance in pandemics

  • Introduction to Week 2

    This activity introduces you to what you will be learning this week and who you will be learning with.

  • Crisis Governance

    In this activity, you will be introduced to the theory around crisis governance, and different forms of crisis responses that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Societal resilience in times of crisis

    In this activity, you will learn about societal resilience and vulnerability in crisis governance. You will also learn about different manifestations of resilience in a slow-burning crisis compared to an acute crisis.

  • Using visual methods

    This activity introduces you to a case study about the COVID-19 pandemic in Dutch secondary schools. It shows how visual methods can contribute to community engagement.

  • What can we learn from Covid-19 crisis governance?

    In this activity, you will be asked to put the theories from previous activities to use in formulating policy recommendations within your own field of work.

  • Wrap-up of Week 2

    A short recap of what you have learned during the week and a chance to test your knowledge of what you have learned during the week.

• Week 3

  Securing medical supply chains

  • Introduction to Week 3

    This activity introduces you to what you will be learning this week and who you will be learning with.

  • Understanding medical supply chains

    This activity introduces you to medical supply chains as well as their special characteristics.

  • Disruptions, preparedness, and response

    This activity introduces you to disruptions, preparedness, and response in the medical supply chain. You also hear about the responses during the COVID-19 pandemic from the first responders.

  • The last-mile delivery for securing medical supplies

    In this activity, you learn about the challenges and solutions for last-mile deliveries in the medical supply chain.

  • Impact of COVID-19 on the medical supply chain

    In this activity, you learn about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the medical supply chain and the lessons learned.

  • Wrap-up of Week 3

    A short recap of what you have learned during the week and a chance to quiz yourself on what you have learned during the week.

• Week 4

  Social media analytics of misinformation spread in pandemics

  • Introduction to Week 4

    This activity introduces you to what you will be learning this week and who you will be learning with.

  • Understanding misinformation

    This activity introduces you to misinformation online and its types.

  • Social media analysis in misinformation research

    This activity introduces how misinformation is researched and some of the different approaches used to mitigate it. In particular, we focus on information that people see on social media. 

  • Source credibility and trust

    In this activity, we introduce a tool to help people assess the credibility of their sources. 

  • Trends and patterns of misinformation and fact-checking

    In this activity, we will be exploring ways to amplify the work of fact-checkers in understanding the flow of information and the potential impact of fact-checking on misinformation spread. 

  • Wrap-up of Week 4

    A short recap of what you have learned during the week and a chance to quiz yourself on what you have learned during the week.

  • Course wrap-up

    A summary of what you have learned during the course and a final test of the course material for upgraded learners.

Who will you learn with?