World Health Organization (WHO) Free Online Course for Increasing Capacity for Response to COVID-19 

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Opportunity Details

  • Opportunity ID 119585
  • Degree Non Degree Program/Certificate
  • Opportunity Type : Fully Funded
  • Duration 2 hours
  • Gender MaleFemale
  • Language of Instruction EnglishChineseSpanishFrenchRussianArabic
  • Application Fee Required No
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Opportunity Description

About the course

The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed an online course to help countries and various other stakeholders and responder groups to the Covid-19 to increase their capacity to respond to Covid-19 more strongly and effectively. The course is intended to assist UN Country Teams in augmenting country preparedness and response to the pandemic.  WHO has designed it as a complement to the Operational Planning Guidelines to Support Country Preparedness and Response.

Details

Course provider: World Health Organization (WHO)

Type: Self-paced

Price: Fee

Duration: 2 hours

Language of instruction: English

Note: The course is also available in the Portuguese – French – Russian- Chinese – Bahasa Indonesia- Arabic -Spanish.

Benefits

The course will provide a certificate to the participants who have obtained at least 80% of the maximum number of marks from all graded assignments.

Learning objectives

By completing this course learners will be able to:

  • Improve their and others’ understanding of the importance of operationalizing the SPRP for the COVID-19 epidemic using the Operational Planning Guidelines
  • Explain the 8 primary pillars of public health preparedness and response and preliminary actions to be taken by the UN country teams
  • access the full series of actions, performance indicators and resources required to conduct the preparedness level assessment using the COVID-19 Partners Platform for country preparedness and response plans

Course structure

It consists of three modules and introduces the context for the need for a coordinated and concerted global response to COVID-19:

1st: Mission and purpose of this program (incl. COVID-19 knowledge):

2nd: Country-level preparedness and response:

3th: Pillars of the public health response:

Who is the course intended for? 

  • For UN country teams (UNCTs)
  • For other Covid-response concerned stakeholders, including partners, donors and civil society
  • To support national readiness and preparedness for COVID-19
  • To assist countries to boost their capacity to respond to COVID-19
  • To increase international coordination for organizing and strengthening response and preparedness
  • To simplify the process of coordinating resources and evaluating country preparedness level

How to apply?

Interested participants can enroll online and take the course for free.

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For more information, please refer to the website of WHO.

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