HarvardX, a Harvard University-wide strategic initiative, has launched a new MOOC featuring content from several of Elsevier's high profile medical journals in response to the report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola by the World Health Organization.
The HarvardX MOOC 'Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic' went live December 3, 2015. The course offers four modules, and will be available for nine weeks. Enrollment is still open and students can explore content and earn an honours certificate up until the course ends on February 4, 2016. Rapid registration has led to over 4,000 people enrolled from over 150 countries in 6 continents.
Content provided by Elsevier includes research papers published by The Lancet; The Lancet Infectious Diseases; Epidemics; Public Health (the official journal of the Royal Society for Public Health); Acta Tropica and other selected titles.
They cover a broad range and depth of topics including: surveillance and response of contagious disease, rapid response, global health governance, policies and leadership, vaccine development, protection of healthcare workers in areas of contagion, funding for health and medical programs, as well as pandemic preparedness, among others.
Medical and public health students and those currently in health-related fields may visit https://www.edx.org/course/lessons-ebola-preventing-next-pandemic-harvardx-ph557x to learn more about 'Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic' and register for the course.
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