Pandemic Preparedness and Response & Dynamic Health System Resilience

A new online interactive certificate course brought to you by three sister organizations UGHE, Socios En Salud, and PIH

A robot introduces itself to patients in Kigali, Rwanda. The robots, used in Rwanda’s treatment centers and airports, can screen people for COVID-19 and deliver food and medication, among other tasks as part of Rwanda’s innovative COVID-19 response. Image Credit: Cyril Ndegeya/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images

Course Offering: Preparedness and Response Before the Pandemic & Dynamic Resilience of Health Systems

The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), Socios En Salud and The Global Learning Collaborative at Partners In Health (PIH) are delighted to offer a new online interactive certificate course Pandemic Preparedness and Response & Dynamic Health System Resilience, brought to you by the three sister organizations.

The course explores various aspects of preparing for and responding to the global COVID-19 pandemic and what it takes to mitigate risk in terms of equitable and well-funded prevention, care and treatment systems. Course content is designed to explain the evolution of COVID-19 and other pandemics in the context of equity, health system resilience, and a One Health approach. It will review the fundamental principles of pandemic preparedness and response that are equity-focused and evidence-based. Through the case study review, you will analyze strategies for integrating health equity as a central principle for success in overcoming COVID-19 and other infectious disease outbreaks.

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Course Modules

Module 1 – Overview of COVID-19, Health equity and resilience of health systems
Module 2: Lessons from past pandemics
Module 3: Perspectives of frontline health workers
Module 4: One health and health equity in the pandemic preparedness and response
Module 5 – COVID-19, Racism and other systems of inequality in the US
Module 6: Contact tracing and wrap-around support
Module 7- Fighting COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation, USA.
Module 8: Rwanda’s Response to COVID-19

Course Launch Event:

Date: March 31st, 2021
Time: 3:00-4:30PM CAT, 9:00-10:30AM ET

We’ve all learned a lot about surviving and fighting a pandemic. The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), Socios En Salud and The Global Learning Collaborative at Partners In Health (PIH) invite you to join a dynamic conversation between Prof. Agnes Binagwaho, Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Joia Mukherjee, and Dr. Leonid Lecca. These senior leaders from UGHE, PIH, and Socios En Salud will share their insights on how we got here, and how to end the pandemic while building resilient health systems. The webinar is offered in both English and Spanish.

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Hear from global health leaders and experts from UGHE, Socios En Salud, and PIH;