Outbreak Management

This short course is a great opportunity for professional development as it was developed during the COVID-19 pandemic response to upskill public health practitioners in outbreak management. This short course has been specially designed for those working within local, state, national or international government, hospital staff, residential care staff, non-government agencies, and emergency response workers. As a participant you will be able to draw on your own experience, both during the workshop and when completing assessment tasks.

Course Structure

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

• Apply the ten steps of an outbreak investigation to communicable disease outbreaks and other public health incidents.
• Apply a risk assessment framework to verify the existence of an outbreak by assessing surveillance data and public health intelligence.
• Apply appropriate epidemiological methods to support outbreak investigations; consolidate the epidemiological results with other evidence obtained during outbreak investigations to determine the source of outbreaks; and recommend appropriate interventions to control outbreaks to prevent further cases.
• Communicate an outbreak investigation using risk communication principles and appropriate documentation.

This short course equates to 30 hours of learning, delivered as participatory workshops, either face-to-face or virtually, (please refer to the delivery schedule above). The workshop consists of interactive lectures, examples, and activities, where you will have the opportunity to practice the ten steps of outbreak investigation. All workshop materials are provided on the online short course platform.

What you will learn