Health Emergency Response to a Pandemic: An Integrated Social Science Perspective
- Offered byFutureLearn
Health Emergency Response to a Pandemic: An Integrated Social Science Perspective at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Health Emergency Response to a Pandemic: An Integrated Social Science Perspective at FutureLearn Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion
Health Emergency Response to a Pandemic: An Integrated Social Science Perspective at FutureLearn Course details
- Learner will learn to make sense of COVID-19 data and learn about behavioural and epidemiological modelling and various data visualisation techniques
- Guided by experts, learner will understand the issues caused by the pandemic and the solutions to help better manage health emergencies
- Learner will delve into crisis governance to gain an understanding of decision-making during this trying time
- Learner will also explore societal resilience in times of crisis and how can strengthen own crisis response
- Learner will unpack the disruptions that occurred in the medical supply chains, how to ensure preparedness, and appropriately respond to such disruptions
- Learner will also learn how to successfully secure medical supply chains using innovative solutions such as unmanned-aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones
- Social media platforms played a significant role in the spread of misinformation during the pandemic
- Learner will explore social media analytics to understand how this happened and learn to fact check on social media to identify misinformation
- Learner will understand how to use the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to better prepare for future crises
Health Emergency Response to a Pandemic: An Integrated Social Science Perspective at FutureLearn Curriculum
Making sense of COVID data, models and their visualisation
Welcome to the course!
Introduction to Week 1
Healthcare data
Computational models and how to use them
Visualisations of COVID-19 data and models
Wrap-up of Week 1
Governance in pandemics
Introduction to Week 2
Crisis Governance
Societal resilience in times of crisis
Using visual methods
What can we learn from Covid-19 crisis governance?
Wrap-up of Week 2
Securing medical supply chains
Introduction to Week 3
Understanding medical supply chains
Disruptions, preparedness, and response
The last-mile delivery for securing medical supplies
Impact of COVID-19 on the medical supply chain
Wrap-up of Week 3
Social media analytics of misinformation spread in pandemics
Introduction to Week 4
Understanding misinformation
Social media analysis in misinformation research
Source credibility and trust
Trends and patterns of misinformation and fact-checking
Wrap-up of Week 4
Course wrap-up
Other courses offered by FutureLearn
Student Forum
Anything you would want to ask experts?
ManagementProject ManagementBusiness AnalysisHealth Emergency Response to a Pandemic: An Integrated Social Science Perspective