Ebola Lessons For COVID-19 Response
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 …
Course: COVID-19: Global Health Perspectives
Coordination and Response to COVID-19
A government has a huge range of factors to consider when planning a comprehensive response to an emerging epidemic. There are so many complex issues when it comes to responding …
Some example country timelines
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 …
What do the numbers mean?
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 …
COVID-19 Progression in Different Countries
In this article, we’ll look at those case timelines and overlay a selection of reported events that had—or potentially had—important impacts on the course of the outbreaks. By the end …
COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health and rights
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 …
Nigeria’s Health System Response to COVID-19
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 …
How prepared were we?
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 …
Boosting Health System Surge Capacity
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 …
People with disabilities in COVID-19 responses
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 …
Disability and COVID 19
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 …
I Have a Runny Nose—Is It COVID-19?
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 …
The Relationship Between HIV and COVID-19
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 …
Welcome to week 2
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 …
Testing and tracing: variations across countries
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 …