PERISCOPE MOOC - 'Tools and Practices for Addressing Pandemic Challenges' (Coursera)

The PERISCOPE Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) “Tools and practices for Addressing Pandemic Challenges” on the platform Coursera is an introductory course that collects short lessons from the main courses that PERISCOPE partners are developing. The main courses will then be available from September 2022, also on Coursera.

Videos and learning materials have been grouped into three thematic modules:  

o Data-driven approaches to pandemics, with four short lessons on: 
1. Crowdsourcing, Gamification, and Data Collection for Decision Making 
2. Network-based Financial Inclusion 
3. Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare 
4. High-resolution contact network data to simulate epidemic dynamics and the impact of digital contact tracing. 

o Pandemic preparedness, prevention, and response, with four brief focuses on: 
1. One Health: role in pandemic preparedness, prevention, and response 
2. Strengthening territorial response for better health 
3. Built Environment & Infectious Diseases 
4. Ending Stigma and Improving Mental Health 

o Social work during and after a pandemic, which consists of: 
1. An overview 
2. Ethnographic Insights into COVID-19 Vaccine Policymaking. 

The course is completely free of charge, 100% online and administered in a self-paced learning modality, with the possibility of receiving a certificate of completion after the successful conclusion of all its modules.