Public Health and Personal Fitness
Module 2
COVID-19
5 Courses
COVID-19: Tackling the Novel Coronavirus Platform: FutureLearn Institutions: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and UK Public Health Rapid Support Team Started: 22/04/2020 Finished: 23/04/2020 COVID-19: Diagnostics and Testing Platform: FutureLearn Institutions: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , FIND and African Society for Laboratory Medicine Started: 28/04/2020 Finished: 12/05/2020 COVID-19: Pandemics, Modelling, and Policy Platform: FutureLearn Institutions: The Open University Started: 28/04/2020 Finished: 12/05/2020 COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application Platform: FutureLearn Institutions: University of Edinburgh Started: 16/05/2020 Finished: 20/05/2020 Managing COVID-19 in General Practice Platform: FutureLearn Institutions: St. George’s University Started: 20/05/2020 Finished: 20/05/2020
2 Books
Covid-19: What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus and the Race for the Vaccine Author: Michael Mosley Publisher: Short Books Published: 2020 Started: 10/06/2020 Finished: 11/06/2020 How to Survive a Pandemic Author: Michael Greger Publisher: Flatiron Books Published: 2020 Started: 11/06/2020 Finished: 05/08/2020
“If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.“
Bill Gates, TED Talk: The next outbreak? We’re not ready, 2015
I had already covered pandemics in a few of my other public health courses and, while I honestly didn’t see it coming in 2020, I certainly wasn’t surprised when COVID turned up.
Then I found myself locked down the same as everyone else in the country with a lot of time on my hands at home.
So I dived into further developing my MTA Portfolio and even built this website to house it.
I also sought to educate myself about COVID-19 and the implications it had for global health. Those courses resulted in the creation of this COVID-19 module.
Many experts have been saying for years that we have been overdue a pandemic. Now that we’ve experienced COVID-19 and how utterly disruptive and devastating it has been on a global scale, it only illustrates the vital importance of maintaining the wellbeing of our shared global health system.