Current course offerings

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Course description

Description: This course covers key infectious and tropical diseases affecting human populations with a focus on resource-poor countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The course will place these diseases within a broad burden of disease framework and will debate the role of poverty, gender, conflict and other factors that contribute to differential disease burden between and within communities. Case studies from the published literature will be used to illustrate key concepts and to facilitate debate. The global distribution, disease burden, epidemiology, surveillance, life cycle, clinical manifestations, treatment and prevention of each disease will be described. For diseases that have vectors or intermediary hosts, factors affecting disease transmission, vector ecology and environmental control options will be discussed. The course includes visits to local laboratories for practical sessions on mosquito vector and snail intermediary host biology and a half-day field trip in the Brisbane area to see the ecology, breeding sites and environmental control of locally-important mosquito vectors. This course may not be offered if the enrolment is less than 10 students.

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