Content overview

OpenWHO COVID-19 course catalogue

Please note: Additional languages can be accessed from the English course pages as they become available. Courses on all other topics are listed in OpenWHO’s general course catalogue.

Clinical Management channel


	Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: Investigations and care for mild, moderate and severe disease
	Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: Rehabilitation of patients with COVID-19
	Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: Initial approach to the acutely ill patient
	Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: General considerations
	WHO Clinical Care Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Training

COVID-19 channel


	SocialNet: Social and behavioural insights COVID-19 data collection tool for Africa
	SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid diagnostic testing
	COVID-19 infodemic management: risk communication and community engagement challenges
	COVID-19 and work: Staying healthy and safe at work during the COVID-19 pandemic
	Management and Facilitation of a Country COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR)
	Occupational health and safety for health workers in the context of COVID-19
	WHO COVID-19 Mass Gatherings Risk Assessment Training
	Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) Treatment Facility Design
	COVID-19: Operational Planning Guidelines and COVID-19 Partners Platform to support country preparedness and response
	Introduction to COVID-19: methods for detection, prevention, response and control
	ePROTECT Respiratory Infections

COVID-19 Vaccines channel


	Learning how to use the COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction and deployment Costing (CVIC) tool
	COVID-19 vaccine-specific resources
	Orientation to national deployment and vaccination planning for COVID-19 vaccines
	COVID-19 vaccination training for health workers

Go.Data channel


	Introduction to Go.Data – Field data collection, chains of transmission and contact follow-up

Infection Prevention and Control channel


	Prevention, identification and management of infections in health workers in the context of COVID-19
	Transmission-based Precautions
	Guidance on mask use in the context of COVID-19
	Long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19
	Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) for COVID-19 Virus
	Standard precautions: Hand hygiene
	COVID-19: How to put on and remove personal protective equipment (PPE)
	Standard precautions: Environmental cleaning and disinfection
	Decontamination and sterilization of medical devices
	Standard precautions: Waste management
	Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) core components and multimodal strategies
	Standard precautions: Injection safety and needle-stick injury management
	Basic microbiology
	Leadership and programme management in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)

Neglected Tropical Diseases channel


	Neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: impact and guidance

Ready for Response channel


	The Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC)

Universal Health Coverage channel


	Health and peace: Concepts and tools for frontline workers – a course by WHO/EMRO

OpenWHO general course catalogue

Please note: All COVID-19 resources are listed separately in OpenWHO’s COVID-19 course catalogue.

Antimicrobial Resistance channel


	Reducing antimicrobial resistance of treatable sexually transmitted infections in antenatal care
	Drug-resistant tuberculosis: how to interpret rapid molecular test results Also offered in the following language: Russian
	Antimicrobial Stewardship: A competency-based approach Also offered in the following languages: French Russian Spanish Italian

Clinical Management channel


	Recognizing and managing anaphylaxis
	Diphtheria: Clinical management of respiratory diphtheria
	Ebola: Clinical management of Ebola virus disease Also offered in the following languages: French Swahili
	Seasonal influenza: Clinical management of seasonal influenza


	Migration and Health: Enhancing Intercultural Competence and Diversity Sensitivity
	Risk communication for Zika virus disease
	Risk communication essentials Also offered in the following languages: Arabic Chinese (Simplified) French Portuguese
	Communication Essentials for Member States

Go.Data channel


	Go.Data How-to tutorials Also offered in the following languages: Arabic French Spanish

Healthier Populations channel


	Tobacco product regulation: Building laboratory testing capacity Also offered in the following language: French
	Tobacco product regulation: Basic handbook Also offered in the following language: French

Infection Prevention and Control channel


	Introduction to Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
	Standard precautions: The role of personal protective equipment (IPC)

Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response channel


	Introduction to AFRO Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Technical Guidelines 3rd Edition
	AFRO IDSR Course 2: Identifying, recording, reporting and analysis of priority diseases, conditions and events
	AFRO IDSR Course 3: Investigating, preparing and responding to outbreaks and other public health events
	AFRO IDSR Course 4: Monitor, supervise, evaluate and use electronic tools in the implementation of the IDSR Strategy
	AFRO IDSR Course 5: Application of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy to Emergency or Fragile Health System contexts

Neglected Tropical Diseases channel


	Rabies & One Health: From basics to cross-sectoral action to stop human rabies deaths
	Mycetoma: Training of health workers at national and district levels on skin-NTDs
	Podoconiosis: Training of health workers at national and district levels on skin-NTDs
	Tungiasis – Sand Flea disease: Training of health workers at national and district levels on skin-NTDs
	Scabies: Training of health workers at national and district levels on skin-NTDs

One Health channel


	Strengthening collaboration between human and animal health sectors for improved health security
	Navigating the Tripartite Zoonoses Guide (TZG): A training for advocates and implementers
	The Joint Risk Assessment (JRA OT): A Training for Implementers

Outbreak channel


	Strengthen internal and external audits of measles rubella laboratory performance in the South-East Asia Region (SEAR) network
	Introduction to Poliomyelitis and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative Also offered in the following language: French
	Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: Introduction
	Zika: Introduction
	Plague: Introduction
	Plague: Knowledge resources for responders Also offered in the following language: French Malagasy
	Leptospirosis: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French
	Ebola: Introduction Also offered in the following languages: French Swahili Lingala
	Ebola: Knowledge resources for responders Also offered in the following language: French
	Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever: Introduction
	Monkeypox: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French
	Cholera: Revised cholera kits and calculation tool
	Lassa fever: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French
	Yellow fever: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French Kanuri
	Meningitis: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French
	Rift Valley fever: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French
	Cholera: Introduction Also offered in the following languages: Arabic French Portuguese Hausa
	Public health interventions in pandemics and epidemics Also offered in the following language: French
	Pandemic and epidemic-prone diseases Also offered in the following language: French
	MERS: methods for detection, prevention, response and control Also offered in the following languages: Arabic French

Preparing for Pandemics channel


	Influenza prevention and control
	Flutool Plus - using the WHO Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Costing Tool
	Pandemic Influenza Vaccines: National Deployment and Vaccination Plans
	Influenza sentinel surveillance training
	Avian and other zoonotic influenza: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French
	Seasonal influenza: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French
	Pandemic influenza: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French
	Pandemic Influenza Severity Assessment (PISA)
	Estimating the burden of seasonal influenza
	Risk communication for influenza events Also offered in the following languages: French Spanish

Ready for Response channel


	Ready4Response Tier 1: Response context and principles Also offered in the following languages: Portuguese
	Ready4Response Tier 2: Systems, structures and skills
	Competency-Based Learning: Introduction
	Health Cluster Coordination
	Management and Facilitation of an After Action Review (AAR)
	Simulation Exercise Management: Introduction Also offered in the following language: French
	Introduction: Operational Readiness (Tier 1) Also offered in the following language: French
	Ebola: GO 2.0 Also offered in the following language: French
	ePROTECT Ebola Also offered in the following language: French
	Incident Management System (Tier 1) Also offered in the following languages: Arabic French Russian Spanish Portuguese
	IMS Tier 2: Working in WHO’s Incident Management System Also offered in the following languages: Arabic French Russian Spanish Portuguese
	WHO Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Emergencies Also offered in the following language: French

Universal Health Coverage channel


	Promoting oral health in primary health care settings Also offered in the following languages: Arabic
	Accelerating progress towards health and well-being: Sustainable Development Goal 3 (English not available) Offered in the following languages: Arabic French Spanish

Serving Countries channels


	Serving countries: Azerbaijan
	Serving countries: India
	Serving countries: Indonesia
	Serving countries: Kazahstan
	Serving countries: Somalia
	Serving countries: Sri Lanka
	Serving countries: Suriname
	Serving countries: Thailand
	Serving countries: Timor-Leste
	Serving countries: Ukraine
	Serving countries: Viet Nam