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Infectious Diseases
and Global Health
MAY 31-JUNE 18, 2021 | ONLINE COURSES
2021 COURSE DIRECTORS
Erika Vlieghe, MD
Marina Klein, MDCM, MSc Head of the Department of General Internal Medicine,
Professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine,
McGill University University Hospital Antwerp; Professor
of Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp
All course activities will be online. Approximate times of live QUALITATIVE METHODS IN GLOBAL Monday-Friday
instruction (versus pre-recorded content) are indicated in the INFECTIOUS DISEASES RESEARCH (mornings)
chart. All times are Eastern Standard Time. Monday-Friday
QUALITY OF TB CARE
Participants wishing to enroll in overlapping courses are (mornings)
permitted to do so, but should be aware that if overlapping HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN THE 21ST Monday-Wednesday
courses have live sessions happening at the same time they CENTURY: CHALLENGES & DILEMMAS (afternoons)
may have to view some content later as a recording.
Wednesday-Friday
The week 1 courses are not accredited by the McGill Office of GLOBAL HEALTH DIAGNOSTICS
(mornings)
Continued Professional Development.
For week 2 and week 3 offerings please see pages 10 and 14. ADVANCES IN THE BIOLOGY & Thursday-Friday
MANAGEMENT OF COVID-19 (full day)
30 31 1 2 3 4 5
QUALITY OF TB CARE
A course focused on the principles and rigorous application 6. Sampling and participant recruitment
of qualitative methods in formative, operational, evaluation 7. Data management and storage
and policy research in infectious disease in diverse global 8. Ethics and evaluation criteria
settings. 9. Dissemination
The course includes didactic expert lectures on qualitative study
COURSE DIRECTORS design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination, interactive
group exercises to apply and practice the lessons learned, as well
Amrita Daftary, PhD, MPH
as short topical presentations and/or panel discussions. The 2021
Assistant Professor, Global Health
virtual course will have synchronous (live) and asynchronous
School of Health Policy & Management
sessions.
Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research,
York University, Toronto, Canada
Poor quality TB care is widespread and is a key driver of the pervasive know-do gap, including training, mentoring,
TB epidemic. This course will address the critical need to go incentives, and system-wide changes for high-quality health
beyond coverage and improve quality of TB care in low and systems
middle-income countries.
OBJECTIVES
COURSE DIRECTORS By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD
• Review various approaches to measuring quality of TB
Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology &
care in low-resource settings
Global Health, McGill University
Associate Director, McGill International TB Centre • Summarize current evidence on quality of TB care, and
give examples of quality improvement programs that have
Zelalem Temesgen, MD worked or failed
Director, Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis
• Describe the role of research in understanding variation
Jishnu Das, PhD in quality, the know-do gap, and provider performance
Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy and improvement
School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
TARGET AUDIENCE
CONTENT • National TB Program managers and program implementers
In order to end TB, we need to increase access to TB care and • Clinicians and nurses
simultaneously ensure that the care provided is of sufficiently • Researchers and academics involved in TB care and
high quality (i.e. care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, prevention
timely, efficient, and equitable). There is plenty of evidence that
• Funding agencies
quality of TB (and TB-HIV coinfection and MDR-TB) care is poor
in many settings, and this is a key reason for the high mortality • Product development partnerships
rate seen in LMICs. This means National TB programs need • Policy makers and public health implementers
to think beyond coverage of TB services; they need to start • Community advocates and civil society
measuring and systematically improving quality of TB care in
LMICs. This session of leading international experts will:
ENROLMENT
• Discuss and debate the best approaches to measurement of
Maximum of 200 participants.
quality of TB care
• Review data on quality of TB care and factors that drive
variation in care
• Explore quality of TB care in private versus public sectors
• Give examples of quality improvement programs in TB as well
as other areas of global health (e.g. from HIV/AIDS) that have
worked or failed through case study lessons
• Explain the use of quality dashboards, audits and tools, and
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their likely impact on quality
• Give strategies for understanding and overcoming the
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Humanitarian Action
in the 21st Century:
Challenges & Dilemmas
MAY 31– JUNE 2, 2021
COURSE DIRECTOR
TARGET AUDIENCE
Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, LL.M
This course will appeal to a wide range of participants from
Professor of Practice, Institute for the Study of International
different countries including:
Development, McGill University;
International Board Director, Médecins Sans Frontières; • Policy makers and ministry officials
General Director, See Change Initiative • Researchers, academics and students from all disciplines
who are interested in humanitarian issues (law, medicine,
CONTENT ethics, global health, political science, international
development and more).
People around the world are facing profound challenges and
• Mid-career humanitarian workers, civil society and advocacy
are living in increasingly fragile contexts. These changing
groups.
dynamics are forcing us to reflect on how humanitarian
assistance is conceptualized and delivered to benefit Participants from LMICs and indigenous communities are
vulnerable and marginalized populations. Today, over 65 million encouraged to apply.
people have been forced to leave their homes because of
conflict, violence, climate change or extreme poverty. They
ENROLMENT
are increasingly demonized by society. At the same time,
inequitable access to affordable medicines and diagnostics, Unlimited.
and significant health impacts of accelerating climate change
continue to challenge our ability to deliver meaningful
humanitarian assistance. This course aims to provoke reflection
and debate of these trends. Participants will delve into the
ethical dilemmas these trends present for humanitarian action.
With input from thought leaders and community advocates
from the humanitarian, environmental and human rights field,
participants will use practical examples and case studies to
explore the political, human and ethical dimensions of these
three global realities.
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Global Health
Diagnostics
JUNE 2– JUNE 4, 2021
This course will introduce the up-to-date key concepts in • Explore the role of technology in the management of COVID-19
the biology, prevention, and management in the efforts to • Present and debate the optimal vaccination strategy against
mitigate and contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Students COVID-19
will learn about the epidemiology and transmission of • Understand and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on mental
SARS-CoV-2 which has contributed to its dissemination health
worldwide. Topics will revolve around understanding the
virus’ biology, novel diagnostic approaches, it’s impact on
special populations, up-to-date therapeutic approaches as OBJECTIVES
well as preventative strategies using vaccines and other By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
public health measures. • Understand the basic properties of SARS-CoV-2 in the context
of its biology, pathogenesis, transmission and epidemiology.
COURSE DIRECTORS • Review various approaches to the management of inpatient and
Matthew P. Cheng, MDCM outpatients with COVID-19
Assistant Professor, Divisions of Infectious Diseases &
• Summarize current evidence on the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2
Medical Microbiology, McGill University
infection, and give examples of specific use cases
Chen Liang, PhD • Describe optimal public health mitigation strategies, including
Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University vaccination, against the COVID-19 pandemic, and highlight
current gaps to be addressed in the future
CONTENT • Present the impact of COVID-19 on social life, mental health,
and at-risk populations
In order to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to increase
diagnostic capacity and implement public health mitigation
strategies. Effective measures will focus on the widespread TARGET AUDIENCE
administration of a safe and effective vaccine, as well as thera- • Clinicians and nurses
peutic approaches for both in and outpatients. There is plenty of
• Undergraduate students, graduate students, medical school
evidence that COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on
students, postdoctoral fellows,
certain populations (e.g. people of certain socioeconomic status
and ethnic origins) and understandings these differences will be • Researchers and academics involved in SARS-CoV-2 research
paramount in containing this pandemic. This session of leading • Funding agencies
international experts will: • Product development partnerships
• Policy makers and public health implementers
• Review the biology and transmission of SARS-CoV-2
• Discuss and highlight the epidemiology of the COVID-19 • Community advocates and civil society
pandemic
• Present novel diagnostic strategies for SARS-CoV-2 ENROLMENT
• Discuss and debate the best therapeutic interventions for the Unlimited.
management of inpatient and outpatients with COVID-19
• Highlight key differences in the manifestations of COVID-19 in
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special populations (including children, pregnant women, and
disenfranchised individuals)
2021 COURSE SCHEDULE: JUNE 7-11, 2021
For week 1 and week 3 offerings please see pages 4 and 14.
JUNE 2021
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
ADVANCED TB DIAGNOSTICS
This course will introduce the up-to-date key concepts and OBJECTIVES
methodologies that are currently being implemented in
• Understand the HIV care cascade, the global targets to end
the efforts to halt and end the HIV epidemic. Students will
HIV epidemic and how to measure success
learn about the HIV care cascade that forms the basis of the
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 90-90- • Identify the major barriers to success in reaching global
90 targets to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. targets
Topics will revolve around understanding and responding • Understand HIV biobehavioural surveillance as part of
to HIV epidemics using biobehavioural surveillance, second generation surveillance
HIV phylogenetics, targeted population research, HIV • Learn about phylogenetics to monitor HIV epidemic in real
eradication, and HIV testing, treatment, and prevention time
interventions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the lectures • Learn about HIV transmission in targeted populations
will be delivered online, with in-class discussion and group
• Learn about the up-to-date HIV testing technologies, HIV
work to enhance the learning experience.
treatment and prevention strategies
• Learn mathematic modeling and other research methods to
COURSE DIRECTORS
understand HIV transmission and epidemic
Chen Liang, PhD
• Learn the main HIV cure strategies aimed at eradicating HIV
Professor, Department of Medicine
infection
Interim Director, McGill AIDS Centre,
McGill University
The focus of this 4-day virtual workshop is on the antimicrobial resistance space indifferent countries.
understanding the complex causes underlying the
Clinicians, researchers, implementers, and health educators from
emergence and spread of AMR, on identifying practical
both high-income and low and middle-income countries will share
approaches to tackle antibiotic misuse in different
questions, successes, and lessons learned to advance the field of
settings, and discussing promising scientific advances
AMR.
related to AMR.
All course activities will be online. Approximate times of live CLINICAL TROPICAL & Monday-Wednesday
instruction (versus pre-recorded content) are indicated in the GEOGRAPHIC MEDICINE (mornings)
chart. All times are Eastern Standard Time.
For week 1 and week 2 offerings please see pages 4 and 10.
JUNE 2021
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
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CONTENT
This course uses a series of interactive lectures to address the
latest health issues and treatments for travelers and endemic
populations affected by tropical and parasitic diseases. Faculty
will present the state-of-the-art in clinical care, research, and
diagnostics, as well as preventative medicine for travelers. Topics
to be covered include clinical approach to parasitic liver, brain
and lung lesions as well as updates in malaria, vaccines and
antimicrobial resistance in the tropics. As usual we will present a
series of fascinating interactive clinical vignettes.
This year, the laboratory workshop cannot be offered due to the 2021 COURSES To Register: http://mcgill-idgh.ca/
pandemic situation.
REGISTRATION FEES
*All prices are in Canadian Dollars. Please refer to World Bank guidelines for country category. Note that both lower-
middle and upper-middle are considered “middle-income countries” for registration pricing.
Notes
• All instruction will be online.
• Participants wishing to enroll in overlapping
courses are permitted to do so, but should be
aware that if overlapping courses have live
sessions happening at the same time they may
have to view some content later as a recording.
• Payment information will be provide upon
confirmation and acceptance of your application.
Please do not make any arrangements until your
application has been accepted.
• The cancellation and refund policy can be found
on the course website.
• Fees are subject to change. Please consult the
website for the most up-to-date fee schedule.
• Faculty listed for each course are subject to
change
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