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GLOH5112: Global Communicable Disease Control
2025 unit information
This unit is an opportunity for students to explore the practicalities of communicable disease prevention, control, and mitigation. In the unit, students will understand four broad categories of responses for communicable disease control - emergency, biomedical, socio-behavioural, and structural. And students will have considered these control responses relative to the epidemiologies, histories, and politics of communicable diseases globally. Each student has the opportunity to create a response plan for a communicable disease of their choice in a country / region most relevant to them. Through opportunities to engage national, regional, and global experts, students will learn to do global communicable disease control that is reasonable, respectful, responsive, and effective.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Public Health |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Understand what communicable diseases are, how they are controlled, and how this control fits into the historical and contemporary public and global health contexts
- LO2. Experience designing an action plan to address a communicable disease requiring control
- LO3. Master the application of key concepts for the control of existing and emergent communicable diseases
- LO4. Understand types of approaches to communicable diseases (emergency, biomedical, socio-behavioural, and structural) and how these may be effectively applied
- LO5. Explore the complexities of global communicable disease control through the lenses of a selected disease (submitted assessments), a group of diseases with shared transmission pathways (tutorials), and communicable diseases generally (live talks)
- LO6. Engage 'experts in the field' about the real worlds of communicable disease control and research
- LO7. Think critically about doing communicable disease control with communities who experience high disease burden, low(er) resources, and intersecting socio-economic marginalities - in Australia and around the world
- LO8. Articulate a reasonable, respectful, responsive, and effective approach to global communicable disease control
Unit availability
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2025
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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