Infectious Diseases and Global Health
Update your knowledge on infectious diseases: with particular focus on clinical problems rising when working in developing countries
- Dates
- 16-24 May 2019
- Tuition
- 480 Euros + University taxes
- Schedule
- Full time
- Timetable
- 9.00 to 13:30
- Mode
- Face-to-face
- Language
- English
- Credits
- 3 ETCS
This course will focus on the group of infectious diseases that harbor the greatest burden worldwide and/or of those that represent some of the greatest challenges for the global health community.
Coordinator
Emili Letang, Assistant Research Professor, ISGlobal.
Assessment
- Individual Written exam
- Class participation
Admission requirements
Students or professionals with some level of medical, paramedical or biomedical scientific background who wish to broaden their perspective of the various subject areas of major infectious diseases.
Application
People interested in taking this course must complete the application form so that we can contact them to indicate the website address to make the pre-enrolment, the opening date to make it and the required documentation:
- Motivation letter
- CV Application
- Managing infectious diseases in limited-resources settings
- Management of sexually transmitted diseases
- Respiratory infections in the tropics: melioidosis and fungal diseases
- Tropical ophthalmology: trachoma
- Tropical ulcer
- Meningitis and meningococcal vaccination
- Neonatal infections
- Uncomplicated malaria
- Severe malaria
- Challenges in the treatment and control of malaria: fake drugs and drug resistance
- The challenge of diagnosing tuberculosis. Childhood TB
- Treatment of tuberculosis in the 21st century: drug resistance and direct observed treatment
- Case study: outbreak investigation and control
- Clinical challenges of the HIV pandemic in its 4th decade
- Challenge: HIV/TB co-infection and other neglected opportunistic infections
- Pediatric HIV
- Tropical neurology
- Emerging infectious diseases: chikungunya, dengue, Mers coronavirus
- Chagas disease: clinical management of a silent disease
- Other Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) of importance: leishmaniasis, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)
- Outbreak control. Cholera case study: outbreak investigation and control