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Certificate of Achievement

Nurizzati Zainurrijal
has completed the following course:

PLAGUES, PESTILENCE AND PANDEMICS: ARE YOU READY?

GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY

This online course explored the current and emerging threat of global health pandemics and how we can
respond to them effectively.

2 weeks, 3 hours per week

Dr Peta-Anne Zimmerman Dr Thea van de Mortel

Program Director, Graduate Infection Control Program Professor & Acting Head of School
Griffith University Griffith University

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 Nurizzati Zainurrijal
has completed the following course:

PLAGUES, PESTILENCE AND PANDEMICS: ARE YOU READY?

GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY

This online course explored the current and • A discussion of bacterial resistance, how
emerging threat of global health pandemics and bacteria evolve to become resistant to things
how we can respond to them effectively. The that are meant to kill them.
topics covered were the science of infection and • Contemporary communicable diseases and
the spread of infectious diseases, how healthcare-associated infections at a global,
microorganisms spread and manifest in the body regional, national and local level.
and the challenges that re-emerging epidemics • Outbreak responses, identifying and breaking
and bacterial resistance pose to disease the chain of infection through good hygiene and
prevention in diverse communities. standard precautions.
• You have a role to play: practical containment
STUDY REQUIREMENT
and prevention strategies.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Explain the science of infection and infectious
diseases
• Describe emerging and re-emerging diseases
• Identify the various challenges in the prevention
of infectious diseases in diverse healthcare and
community settings
• Discuss the basic principles of effective
containment and prevention of infectious
diseases
SYLLABUS
• The science of infection and disease and the
distinction between the two. Not all infections
cause disease and not all diseases may be due
to infection.
• Microorganisms: how they spread, and how they
manifest in the body to cause disease.
• Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases:
emerging infections are those that have newly
appeared in a population whereas re-emerging
infections are those that existed in the past
(SARS, EBOLA) but have reappeared.

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