Health Surveillance Course
This course provides essential skills for health surveillance, focusing on respiratory diseases in urban settings, including data analysis, system design, outbreak detection, and targeted responses.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Health Surveillance Course equips you with practical skills to design and interpret respiratory disease surveillance in urban environments. You will learn to develop case definitions, choose indicators, standardise rates, and use time-series and outbreak detection methods. It covers data sources, integration, geospatial tools, risk stratification, and communication strategies to support quick, evidence-based response decisions.
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Develop skills
- Build case definitions: develop criteria for suspected, probable, and confirmed cases.
- Analyse surveillance data: compute incidence, rates, and essential respiratory indicators.
- Design citywide systems: establish practical, resource-efficient surveillance networks.
- Detect outbreaks quickly: utilise time-series tools and alert thresholds effectively.
- Target high-risk groups: apply geospatial and equity data to direct rapid responses.
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