The Certificate for Pandemic Preparedness with a One Health approach is a short innovative, professional and interdisciplinary course for key personnel and future experts in pandemic preparedness and management. The importance of this course is underlined by past threats and lessons learnt, for example the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa 201 –2016, showing that a multisectoral response including resource mobilisation and coordination is significant for success.
The purpose of this course is therefore to provide critical knowledge and skills to potential diverse responders to infectious diseases whenever and wherever they occur in East Africa. The main focus of the course is pandemics and consists of:
1) Prevention and response,
2) Governance for prevention and response,
3) Sectors involved in prevention and response, and
4) Analysis of the factors influencing prevention and response.
The emphasis of this course is on the use of the One Health Approach utilising knowledge from all relevant and affected sectors and disciplines to outbreak/epidemic/pandemic preparedness and response. It is expected that the course will stimulate participants to broaden their knowledge and skills for effective response to disease outbreaks.
This 13-topic course is designed to equip participants with knowledge, attitudes and skills in outbreak/epidemic/pandemic preparedness and response and create a critical mass of professionals with ability to prepare and respond to disease outbreaks in the region using the One Health Approach.
Designed as a short 2-3 weeks certificate course
