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Online Short Course | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Gain the knowledge and skills that are critical to working in the field of pandemics. This master’s level online course is developed by the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) and offers a focused perspective and approach to learning about pandemics. The course will outline the specific drivers, multi-disciplinary actors and response measures, and facilitate the critical appraisal of pandemic preparedness, response and research in different contexts. This course is currently closed but you can register interest here. 
8th June 2023
This briefing paper by the CLEAN research group, first convened in mid-2022 as part of a UK-PHRST project, sets out 12 priority research questions to improve cleaning practices in resource-limited healthcare settings and help prevent infections and antimicrobial resistance among staff and patients. The research questions span cleaning standards, health system-related questions, behaviour change and innovation.
It also highlights the challenges facing resource-limited settings and factors that need to be considered to support the implementation of tailored and effective cleaning practices. For example, the experts recommend viewing cleaners as a key part of health systems and including them in the design of new hospital cleaning programmes. Read more about this briefing paper and post your comments.
10th August 2021
Kagando Mission Hospital in Uganda, the Medical Research Council (MRC)-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) and the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) is investigating the prevalence of exposure to viral hemorrhagic fever viruses (VHF viruses) and SARS-CoV-2 in health care workers and surrounding communities. In this blog, the challenges of implementing research in the context of a pandemic are discussed, as well as how they were overcome through a strong collaborative research ethos. Read more about this study and post your comments.
This framework has been developed to share learning from the UK-PHRST's development of a massive open online course (MOOC) entitled “COVID-19: Tackling the Novel Coronavirus”. It details a stepwise approach to the development and delivery of a MOOC in the context of a disease outbreak and includes links to useful tools and templates.
This handbook strives to: serve as a quick R code reference manual; provide task-centered examples addressing common epidemiological problems; assist epidemiologists transitioning to R; and be accessible in settings with low internet-connectivity via an offline version. This handbook is produced by a collaboration of epidemiologists from around the world drawing upon experience with organizations including local, state, provincial, and national health agencies, the World Health Organization (WHO), Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders (MSF), hospital systems, and academic institutions.
Find out how the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, including COVID-19 surveillance in The Gambia.
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This collection of videos will introduce you to the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) including its purpose, objectives, structure and triple remit; research, response and capacity development. It includes speakers from partner organisations such as DHSC, FCDO, WHO-GOARN and Nigeria CDC sharing their first-hand perspectives of working with the UK-PHRST.
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Case Study: What does it take to deploy in 48 hours?
As part of the triple remit, the UK-PHRST have a cadre of experts available to deploy to an outbreak in a matter of 48 hours, but what does it take to be ready to deploy?
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Keep up to date with the latest UK-PHRST activities by reading our quarterly newsletters.
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Two Day Orientation Training: COVID-19 & Community Health Workers (CWH)
This training on COVID-19 for CHWs has been designed as a rapid and practical field-level orientation that can be given with little recourse to technology and adapted by individual countries as needed. It has been used in multiple African Union member states, and is provided open access on condition of acknowledgement of Africa CDC.
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How do you select which data collection or management tool to use in an outbreak? The Data Collection, Management and Analysis Tool Finder was created to support decision makers (MoH, NGOs etc.) to find the most appropriate electronic tools for outbreak response based on their needs and technical requirements.
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This specialist short course explores some of the core ethical issues that arise in the conduct of research in global health emergencies – from outbreaks of infectious diseases to natural and human-made disasters.
