Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing
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What you'll learn
Identify and calculate metrics and indicators that can be used to measure the impact of contact tracing programs
Use an interactive decision support tool to quantify the potential impact of testing and contact tracing strategies on reducing transmission.
Strategize about how to improve the impact of contact tracing programs
Understand underlying assumptions used by the tool to estimate the impact of contact tracing programs
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There are 3 modules in this course
This course aims to provide managers and developers of contact tracing programs guidance on the most important indicators of performance of a contact tracing program, and a tool that can be used to project the likely impact of improvements in specific indicators. Students who complete the course will be proficient in using the Contact Tracing Evaluation and Strategic Support Application (ConTESSA) to estimate the impact of their contact tracing program on transmission and strategizing about how to increase their program’s impact. A secondary audience for the course will be decision makers interested in knowing more about the characteristics of effective contact tracing programs, and strategies to improve.
The course is designed for individuals who are already leading contact tracing programs who have significant experience with epidemiology and public health. We strongly recommend completing this course on a laptop or a desktop rather than a phone as you’ll need to complete worksheets and open the course and the application simultaneously.
What's included
8 videos4 readings1 assignment
8 videos•Total 67 minutes
- Welcome to Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing•4 minutes
- Review of SARS-CoV-2 transmission•14 minutes
- Infectious period and generation time•7 minutes
- Reproductive number as indicator of impact of contact tracing•9 minutes
- Introduction to performance metrics•6 minutes
- Surveillance: Detection and isolation of infected people•14 minutes
- Completeness and timing of contact tracing and quarantine•13 minutes
- Summary•2 minutes
4 readings•Total 13 minutes
- Updated Version of ConTESSA Available•1 minute
- Accessing and using ConTESSA •1 minute
- Course Resources and Technical Support•10 minutes
- Accessing and using ConTESSA: preparing to learn •1 minute
1 assignment•Total 9 minutes
- Measuring indicators of impact in contact tracing•9 minutes
What's included
10 videos1 reading1 assignment
10 videos•Total 48 minutes
- Contact Tracing Evaluation and Strategic Support Application (ConTESSA)•3 minutes
- Introduction to ConTESSA•5 minutes
- Review: Surveillance Metrics•6 minutes
- Entering Surveillance and Isolation Data•11 minutes
- Review: Contact Tracing Metrics•4 minutes
- Entering Household Contact Tracing Data•3 minutes
- Entering Community Contact Tracing Data•2 minutes
- Model of Contact Tracing Impact•2 minutes
- Viewing the Dashboard and Generating a Report •10 minutes
- Summary of ConTESSA•0 minutes
1 reading•Total 2 minutes
- Program Metric Worksheets for The Shire•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 20 minutes
- ConTESSA: Interactive Tool to Estimate Impact of Contact Tracing•20 minutes
What's included
4 videos1 assignment
4 videos•Total 26 minutes
- Examining Strategies to Increase the Impact of Contact Tracing•5 minutes
- Comparing programs using Scenario B•9 minutes
- Understanding the Underlying Assumptions•4 minutes
- Advanced options•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 20 minutes
- Strategies to Increase the Impact of Contact Tracing and Review of Underlying Assumptions•20 minutes
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Reviewed on Sep 17, 2020
Thank you very much for the wonderful ideas on how to stop or solve the spread of COVID 19 to the community and from infecting people around. Thanks a lot, ma'am and sir
Reviewed on Aug 30, 2020
The course was very informative. ConTESSA is a useful app that would make contact tracing effective. I am looking forward to using it in the future, if given the chance,
Reviewed on Nov 3, 2020
Course was kind of hard I had to put my thinking cap on when it came to the math part. You’ll definitely need pen and paper to answer some of the quiz question. The course was great
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This course provide information and guidance on the most important indicators of performance of a contact tracing program for managers and developers of contact tracing programs. This course includes tutorials on how to use a tool that projects the probable impact of contact tracing on transmission in communities, and how to strategize about improving the impact.
Visit https://www.coursera.org/promo/covid-19-contact-tracing to learn about how to enroll in this course for free. The promotional price will be applied to your purchase automatically.
You will need to enroll via a web browser on either a computer or a mobile device and not via the Coursera mobile app to enroll for the course and certificate for free. Unfortunately, the promotional price is not redeemable through the mobile app.
We strongly recommend completing this course on a laptop or a desktop computer rather than a phone as you’ll need to complete worksheets and open the course and the application simultaneously.