LEARNING OUTCOMES • Explain the science of infection and infectious diseases • Describe emerging and re-emerging diseases Identify the various challenges in the prevention of infectious diseases in diverse healthcare and community settings • Discuss the basic principles of effective containment and prevention of infectious diseases SYLLABUS • The science of infection and disease and the distinction between the two. Not all infections cause disease and not all diseases may be due to infection. • Microorganisms: how they spread, and how they manifest in the body to cause disease. • Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: emerging infections are those that have newly appeared in a population whereas re-emerging infections are those that existed in the past (SARS, EBOLA) but have reappeared.

1. Dr Peta-Anne Zimmerman
Program Director, Graduate Infection Control Program
Griffith University
Dr Thea van de Mortel
Professor & Acting Head of School
Griffith University
Certificate of Achievement
Alejandro Motta
has completed the following course:
PLAGUES, PESTILENCE AND PANDEMICS: ARE YOU READY?
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
This online course explored the current and emerging threat of global health pandemics and how we can
respond to them effectively.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
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2. Alejandro Motta
has completed the following course:
PLAGUES, PESTILENCE AND PANDEMICS: ARE YOU READY?
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
This online course explored the current and
emerging threat of global health pandemics and
how we can respond to them effectively. The
topics covered were the science of infection and
the spread of infectious diseases, how
microorganisms spread and manifest in the body
and the challenges that re-emerging epidemics
and bacterial resistance pose to disease
prevention in diverse communities.
STUDY REQUIREMENT
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
LEARNING OUTCOMES
SYLLABUS
Explain the science of infection and infectious
diseases
•
Describe emerging and re-emerging diseases•
Identify the various challenges in the prevention
of infectious diseases in diverse healthcare and
community settings
•
Discuss the basic principles of effective
containment and prevention of infectious
diseases
•
The science of infection and disease and the
distinction between the two. Not all infections
cause disease and not all diseases may be due
to infection.
•
Microorganisms: how they spread, and how they
manifest in the body to cause disease.
•
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases:
emerging infections are those that have newly
appeared in a population whereas re-emerging
infections are those that existed in the past
(SARS, EBOLA) but have reappeared.
•
A discussion of bacterial resistance, how
bacteria evolve to become resistant to things
that are meant to kill them.
•
Contemporary communicable diseases and
healthcare-associated infections at a global,
regional, national and local level.
•
Outbreak responses, identifying and breaking
the chain of infection through good hygiene and
standard precautions.
•
You have a role to play: practical containment
and prevention strategies.
•
This transcript should be read alongside the accompanying Certificate of Achievement.
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