For internal use only

COVID-19 courses

November 2020

• Courses in official WHO languages • Courses in national languages

• Courses on infection prevention and control • Courses on clinical management

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 OpenWHO LEARNING RESPONSE IN COVID-19
OpenWHO is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) online platform for health emergencies,
transferring life-saving knowledge to frontline responders, health care workers and the public.

USER FIGURES

4.6 MILLION 42
TOTAL LEARNER ENROLMENTS LANGUAGES
HOLA!
HELLO CIAO

141 6.3 MILLION

COVID-19 COURSES WORDS TRANSLATED

OpenWHO HOSTS MULTILINGUAL ONLINE COURSES ON 19 TOPICS IN 42 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES,

MAKING UP A TOTAL OF 141 COURSES FOR #COVID19 ON THE OPENWHO PLATFORM.
 Introduction to eProtect Occupational Clinical Clinical Prevention & Protective Hand Long-term Facility Mass Go.Data Country Other IPC
COVID-19 respiratory health care management control (IPC) equipment hygiene care design gatherings tool response topics
Outbreak specific Health/safety Health/safety Intervent. Intervent. Intervent. Intervent. Intervent. Intervent. Logistics Logistics Data Capacitation Intervent.
Arabic Chinese Arabic English Arabic English Arabic Arabic Arabic English Arabic English English Arabic English

English French Chinese Macedonian English 9266 Chinese Chinese Chinese Dutch English French Spanish Chinese Tetum
enrolments Waste
Russian Spanish English Portuguese French English English English Indonesian French Spanish Mongolian English management
69 826
Amharic Bengali French French Russian French French French Spanish Russian Portuguese French French English
Medical device
Dari German Russian Spanish Spanish Russian Russian Russian Portuguese Spanish 43 393 Portuguese Russian decontamination
enrolments 28 537

Hausa Hindi Spanish Tajik Indonesian Spanish Spanish Spanish 10 711 Indonesian Sinhala Spanish English
enrolments
Hungarian Igbo Albanian 51 043 Macedonian Bengali Albanian Dutch Italian Tamil Indonesian Tetum
enrolments Environmental
Indian Sign Indonesian Bengali Portuguese Dutch Dutch Portuguese Portuguese 107 326 Portuguese cleaning
enrolments 65 185
Kurdish Macedonian Indonesian Tetum Indonesian Macedonian Somali Tetum Nepali English
Injection
Marathi Oriya Macedonian Vietnamese Italian Portuguese Turkish Vietnamese 548 529 safety
enrolments 12 754
Oromo Pashto Polish Bengali Japanese Somali Sinhala 227 022 English
enrolments
Core
Persian Portuguese Portuguese Dutch Macedonian Tetum Tamil components
26 194
Punjabi Serbian Sinhala Mongolian Persian Thai Tetum English
Basic
Somali Swahili Tetum Polish Polish Turkish 231 264 microbiology
enrolments 26 084
Tetum Turkish Vietnamese Thai Portuguese Romanian
228 580
Urdu Vietnamese Tamil Turkmen Serbian Sinhala enrolments

Yoruba Zulu 159 189 Sinhala Tamil

Real-time training for COVID-19

Thai
enrolments
Fula Intl Sign 232 280 Somali Urdu
enrolments
Nepali Sinhala Tetum 281 093
enrolments = coming soon
Tamil Thai Turkish
812 753
870 383 enrolments Vietnamese enrolments OpenWHO.org by
 Courses hosted on PAHO Virtual Campus for Public Health = coming soon

Intro to COVID-19 ePROTECT Infection prevention Clinical care Severe COVID-19 country SARI
and emerging respiratory and control (IPC) for Acute Respiratory preparedness and treatment facility
respiratory viruses infections COVID-19 Infection (SARI) response planning design

Outbreak specific Health and safety Interventions Interventions Country capacitation Logistics
201 286 enrolments 117 496 enrolments 31 701 enrolments

Spanish Spanish Spanish Spanish Spanish Spanish

13 060 enrolments 4772 enrolments 1908 enrolments

Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese

214 346 enrolments 78 121 enrolments 122 268 enrolments 33 609 enrolments 13 435 enrolments 938 enrolments

4 275 549 total COVID-19

course enrolments
across both platforms
3 812 832 enrolments 462 717 enrolments

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 Timeline of COVID-19 learning resources - launch and use on OpenWHO.org
1000000 870 383

812 753
900000
548 529

800000 281 098

22-23 January 30 January 12 February 11 March
st nd
1 meeting of 2 meeting of Activation of COVID-19 232 280
the Emergency the Emergency WHO-led UN Crisis characterized
700000
Committee Committee Management Team as a pandemic 231 264

600000 227 022

159 189
500000
107 326

400000
69 826
30 January 65 185
Declaration
300000
of PHEIC 51 043

200000
43 393

28 537
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12 754

10 711
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1/26/2020 2/26/2020 3/26/2020 4/26/2020 5/26/2020 6/26/2020 7/26/2020 8/26/2020 9/26/2020 10/26/2020 9266
Decon ECD eProtect GoData HH Intro IPC IS MG Microbiology MMIS OHS PPE SARI Facilities UNCT WM LTCF ClinMGMT SARI (All languages combined)
 REAL-TIME TRAINING FOR COVID-19 | FREE ONLINE COURSES ON OpenWHO.org
INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL RISK COUNTRY Logistics module Risk OCCUPATIONAL COVID-19 Country
COVID-19 MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENTS CAPACITATION — COUNTRY communication HEALTH AND VACCINE preparedness
------------------------- SERIES FOR MASS ------------------------ CAPACITATION module — SAFETY module —
FIELD DATA TOOL ------------------------- GATHERINGS INTRA-ACTION INTRODUCTION ------------------------ COUNTRY
------------------------- LONG-TERM CARE REVIEW TO COVID-19 ePROTECT CAPACITATION
INFECTION FACILITIES ------------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------
PREVENTION AND ------------------------- Community READY 4 INTRA-ACTION
CONTROL NON- engagement RESPONSE REVIEW
-------------------------- COMMUNICABLE module — ------------------------
PERSONAL DISEASES COUNTRY MULTISECTORAL
PROTECTIVE ------------------------- CAPACITATION PREPAREDNESS
EQUIPMENT NEGLECTED -------------------------
------------------------- TROPICAL EMPOWERING
TREATMENT DISEASES COMMUNITIES
FACILITY DESIGN ------------------------
-------------------------- RISK Courses in grey are under
Epi & lab modules COMMUNICATION development
— COUNTRY FOR COVID-19
CAPACITATION

FIND, TEST, PROVIDE ADAPT COORDINATION COORDINATED RISK TECHNICAL ACCELERATING STRENGTHENING
ISOLATE AND CLINICAL CARE STRATEGIES AND MONITORING GLOBAL COMMUNICATION EXPERTISE RESEARCH, PANDEMIC
CARE FOR CASES AND MAINTAIN BASED ON OF COUNTRY SUPPLY CHAIN AND AND HEALTH INNOVATION AND PREPAREDNESS
AND QUARANTINE ESSENTIAL RISK, CAPACITY PREPAREDNESS MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY EMERGENCY KNOWLEDGE FOR THE
CONTACTS TO HEALTH AND AND RESPONSE ENGAGEMENT WORKFORCE SHARING FUTURE
CONTROL SERVICES TO VULNERABILITY
TRANSMISSION REDUCE
MORTALITY

COVID-19 STRATEGIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PLAN — SPRP 2 PILLARS AND ONLINE TRAINING
 REAL-TIME SOLUTIONS FOR MASSIVE LEARNING REACH DURING THE PANDEMIC
UPSCALE OpenWHO.org
PLATFORM CAPACITY
From 180 000 to 4.6 million learner
registrations in 10 months
Data and analysis for more than
200 courses
50 expert teams producing courses
simultaneously
Systems for fully dispersed and
remote production
SERVE THE
VULNERABLE
Free access for all and
low-bandwidth adjusted
platform to ensure global reach
Expedited publishing in languages
used by the most vulnerable
populations
Machine translation process initiated
for 15 languages of vulnerable
populations
EMPHASIZE
MULTILINGUALISM
Multilingual production capacity in all
UN languages and Portuguese, and
courses in 40+ languages
Crowdsourcing for translations
through WHO country offices and
regions, volunteers and institutes
PAHO Virtual Campus collaboration
for Spanish and Portuguese production
and course hosting on both platforms
 USING CROWD POWER TO TRANSLATE KNOWLEDGE FOR COVID-19
Locations of WHO offices and volunteers helping with OpenWHO translation

Germany
Copenhagen, Russia
Netherlands
Canada Denmark (EURO)
Belgium
United Kingdom Poland
Ireland Belarus
Hungary
Geneva, Switzerland Moldova Mongolia
Romania
France Serbia Bulgaria
N.Macedonia Kyrgyzstan Democratic People’s
Portugal Republic of Korea
Washington D.C., Spain Italy Turkey Turkmenistan
Greece China
United States of America Syria Afghanistan
(PAHO/AMRO) Tunisia Iran
Morocco Iraq
Pakistan
Cairo, Egypt Nepal
Algeria New Delhi,
(EMRO) Bangladesh
Mexico India
(SEARO)
Manila, Philippines
El Salvador Vietnam (WPRO)
Thailand
Nigeria
Ethiopia
Suriname
Somalia Sri Lanka Malaysia
Colombia Cameroon
Kenya Singapore
Indonesia
Brazzaville, Congo Democratic
(AFRO) Republic Tanzania
of the Timor Leste
Peru
Brazil Congo

Mozambique

Chile
Australia

South Africa
Argentina

WHO HEADQUARTERS

WHO REGIONAL OFFICES

WHO COUNTRY OFFICES

VOLUNTEER TRANSLATORS
 OpenWHO enrolments since its creation in June 2017

5000000
4 621 326 total enrolments
4500000

4000000

3 812 832 enrolments in

3500000
COVID-19 courses
Accumulated Enrolments

3000000

2500000

2 093 766 unique learners

2000000

1500000

1000000

500000

Date
2017 2018 2019 2020

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 Recent scientific publications
• Global Access to OpenWHO’s Online
Learning Resources for COVID-19 (18th
International Conference on Informatics,
Management and Technology in Healthcare)
• Received 'Best Communication Paper
Award’
• An Analysis of the Growth in Uptake of
OpenWHO’s Online Learning Resources for
COVID-19 (18th International Conference on
Informatics, Management and Technology in
Healthcare)
• Serving Health Emergency Responders
Through Online Learning – Findings from
OpenWHO’s Global User Metrics (30th
Medical Informatics Europe)
Peer-reviewed article published in Journal of Medical Internet Research

"Global Reach of an Online COVID-19

Course in Multiple Languages on
OpenWHO in the First Quarter of 2020:
Analysis of Platform Use Data"

Utunen H, Ndiaye N, Piroux C, George R,

Attias M, Gamhewage G

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(4):e19076

https://www.jmir.org/2020/4/e19076

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Real-time training
for COVID-19
Free online courses from WHO Intro to Health Clinical Prevention &
COVID-19 & safety care control (IPC)

Protective Hand Country Treatment Field data Mass Long-term

equipment hygiene capacitation facilities tool gatherings care

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