Course: COVID-19: Global Health Perspectives

Ebola is a very different disease to COVID-19, given its mode of transmission, higher (though highly varied) fatality, and also because of the health system contexts the response has largely …

In the step above, you considered the range of aspects a government must consider when planning a comprehensive response to an emerging epidemic. There are so many complex issues when …

Before we consider the range of health system responses to COVID-19 so far, let’s first consider what we mean by a health system from both a specific, narrow gaze as …

In this mini-lecture, Dr Angus Campbell presents the COVID-19 case timelines for 13 different countries using the graphing tools from OurWorldInData. We see that there is no one way to …

This step marks the last part of this Activity. In this video, Dr Angus Campbell considers some key concepts that influence how we interpret test results. We will use the …

Sexual and reproductive health services are an essential area of health care the world over, and the interruption of these services during times of crises has far reaching impacts. In …

In the last step we looked at the course of COVID-19 infections based on reported numbers of cases from example countries. We evaluated this information in different ways, including absolute …

Many countries across the world face exponentially more constraints in funding, capacity and infrastructure than wealthier nations when coping with the threat of COVID-19, as we learned in the previous …

In this video, we explore some key approaches to assessing epidemic preparedness and consider how prepared we thought we were to face a threat like COVID-19. We look specifically at …

Surge capacity can be defined as the ability to evaluate and care for a markedly increased volume of patients – one that challenges or exceeds normal operating capacity1. Countries have …

In this video, Dr Manjula Marella summarises the impacts of COVID-19 responses on people with disabilities. The key response strategies to slow the COVID-19 outbreak and relieve congestion in hospitals …

In recent years, the understanding of disability has evolved from a medical to a social concept. In the medical model, disability was perceived as an individual’s problem due to their …

In this article, we’ll discuss the key clinical features of COVID-19. By the end of this step, you should have updated your knowledge on the key signs of COVID-19 and …

Does having HIV make you more likely to experience severe illness from COVID-19? In this article Brigitte Tenni from the Nossal Institute for Global Health outlines the current research to …

In this video, Professor Barbara McPake explores what affects a country’s approach to testing and tracing, and why these vary considerably across settings. It also looks at why it is …