PBH3002 · Infectious disease prevention and control

Overview

You will develop your understanding of infectious disease prevention and control. This includes an understanding of disease transmission, epidemiology, surveillance, health protection and infection control, and the importance of collaboration and communication to prevent and control outbreaks. You will apply these principles to a range of infectious disease scenarios. Irrespective of the career path you take, you will be equipped with the skills needed to respond to outbreaks as they happen.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Identify and describe infectious disease characteristics, historical implications and challenges
2. Apply and interpret epidemiological principles to infectious diseases
3. Distinguish between different infectious disease surveillance systems
4. Establish evidence-based strategies to detect, investigate, prevent and control outbreaks
5. Communicate effectively in outbreak situations

Workload

1-hour lecture, 2-hour tutorial, 3 hours of directed online student learning activities, plus 6 hours of self-directed study per week.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.