Clinicians, surveillance personnel and public health practitioners require knowledge and skills to identify, investigate and respond to yellow fever cases and outbreaks in a timely and effective manner. This course provides guidance on the necessary steps to investigate and comprehensively respond to a yellow fever outbreak, including accessing vaccines from emergency global stockpiles in a timely manner and adequately monitoring the impact of interventions.
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Language: English
Yellow fever
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Overview: Yellow fever is a vaccine-preventable mosquito-borne disease capable of causing high-impact large-scale outbreaks with risk of international spread. The virus is endemic in parts of Africa and the Americas, and infection can cause an acute viral haemorrhagic disease leading, in some cases, to severe illness and death. Early identification, confirmation and response, including vaccination of high-risk populations, is essential to controlling and preventing large-scale yellow fever outbreaks. This course aims to provide the learner with a framework of steps to assure complete and timely investigation and response to a yellow fever outbreak, with appropriate monitoring for impact. The target audience is field-level clinicians, surveillance and laboratory personnel and public health practitioners involved in yellow fever control.
Course duration: Approximately 6 hours
Course contents: The course presents the following modules:
Module 1: Investigating a suspected yellow fever case or outbreak
Module 2: Developing and submitting a vaccine provision request to the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision
Module 3: Planning a yellow fever outbreak response
Module 4: Implementing a yellow fever outbreak response
Module 5: Measuring and evaluating the outbreak response
Certificate: A Certificate of Achievement will be available to participants who score at least 80% in the final assessment.
Participants who receive a Certificate of Achievement can also download an Open Badge for this course. Click here to learn how.
What you'll learn
- describe yellow fever and its key risks
- explain the key elements for inclusion in a yellow fever outbreak case investigation;
- access and comprehensively complete an application request to the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision (ICG) to obtain the yellow fever vaccine;
- describe the components for inclusion in a comprehensive yellow fever response plan;
- describe the key considerations for determining the scope and scale of a yellow fever response plan;
- explain the core steps for implementing a yellow fever outbreak response
- describe the monitoring and evaluation approaches when responding to a yellow fever outbreak, and the minimum reporting standards.
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Certificate Requirements
- Gain a Record of Achievement by earning at least 80% of the maximum number of points from all graded assignments.
- Gain an Open Badge by completing the course.