Incoming Courses
1. Clinical basics of infectious diseases
Planned dates: May 2025
Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Public health and healthcare professionals are often confronted with questions and decisions that require knowledge of prevention and clinical management of infectious diseases. With this course, we would like to provide these professionals with an adequate basis on pathogenesis, main clinical features, diagnostics and main treatment and prevention strategies for infectious diseases. This two-week course is intended to introduce students and public health professionals from non-clinical fields to clinical basics of infectious diseases. The course will be based on lectures, seminars and practical sessions.
2. Applied infectious diseases epidemiology, outbreaks investigation and surveillance
Planned dates: October 2025
In this course, infectious disease outbreaks and infectious disease surveillance systems are explained and main concepts of outbreak investigations and disease surveillance in public health are described. Furthermore, we will use different examples of public health interventions and the evaluation of the impact in the public health and hospital infection control setting as well as use of recent examples from the COVID-19 epidemic and Cholera outbreak in Malawi to illustrate applied epidemiological and public health principles. This two-weeks course focuses on epidemiology for infections, including learning about modern technologies and their applications in identification and tackling global public health challenges.
3. Design and evaluation of interventions for infectious diseases
Planned dates: October 2025
The students will have hand on experience in designing epidemiologic studies and assessments of the quality of studies to contribute to the evidence-based healthcare in public health. This two weeks course aims to provide theoretical knowledge and practical skills for the design and conduct of field trials of health interventions directed against infectious diseases. While the focus of this course will be on field trials, we will also introduce clinical trials with relevant examples.
4. Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases
Planned dates: April 2026
Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. New pathogens continue to emerge, causing unforeseen outbreaks leading to events like the influenza pandemic in 2009, the Zika epidemic in 2016, and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Mathematical models are being increasingly used to understand the transmission of infections and to evaluate the potential impact of control programmes in reducing morbidity and mortality.
This two-week course is intended to introduce students and professionals working on infectious diseases or with an interest in them to the exciting and expanding area of mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. The course will emphasise developing a conceptual understanding of the basic methods and practical applications of mathematical modelling of infectious disease dynamics.
The course will be based on lectures and "hands-on" practical sessions including setting up models in specialist modelling software, small group work, and seminars.
Online Courses
All core courses, advanced courses and short courses planned in the program will be offered in a hybrid format. However, we encourage presence attendance for courses involving practical sessions and laboratory visits.
In-person workshops
All core courses, advanced courses and short courses planned in the program will be offered in a hybrid format. However, we encourage presence attendance for courses involving practical sessions and laboratory visits.
Like with the delivery mode of the courses, coordination meetings will also involve online regular meetings and annual presence coordination meetings in Malawi.
