Analyse how differing capacities of health systems, governments and communities have shaped responses to and impacts of COVID-19. Explore how countries can strengthen their health systems for future pandemics. The global response to COVID-19 has varied dramatically, but how prepared were different countries for this crisis, and what does pandemic preparedness require?
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On this course, you’ll discover how a country’s response and resilience to COVID-19 is directly shaped by the disparity between global systems, including health, political, economic and environmental systems.
As you learn what pandemic preparedness requires, you’ll analyse key lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic, and consider how these lessons can be applied to a country’s emergency planning and decision-making for the future.
What topics will you cover?
- Impacts of both COVID-19 and varying country responses to COVID-19
- Readiness for and responses to COVID-19
- Resilience demonstrated in responses to the pandemic and the inequities driving uneven pandemic outcomes
- Intersectionality of vulnerable systems and population-level inequities in relation to COVID-19 and responses to COVID-19
- Pandemic prevention, preparedness, and health system strengthening for the future
- The intersection of multiple systems in shaping the impacts and responses to COVID-19
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Assess the widely varied responses to and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in diverse country contexts, and analyse the significance of different health systems and political, economic and environmental factors in determining these differences.
- Compare and contrast different country and community readiness for and resilience to COVID-19.
- Evaluate how complex and intersecting inequalities have both shaped, and are being shaped by COVID-19 and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Understand key opportunities and strategies for the future in relation to inter-sectoral pandemic preparedness, and designing responses with a focus on health systems strengthening, equity and inclusion.
