New courses and languages on OpenWHO this month
New courses and languages
1.New courses launched in March
We are pleased to announce the following courses that were recently made available:
- COVID-19 respiratory equipment: This course teaches how to choose the right equipment for your facility, how to set up new respiratory equipment, how to clinically use respiratory equipment, how to maintain equipment, including troubleshooting, repairs and infection prevention and control, and how to decommission equipment.
- Vaccine Safety Basics: The aim of this course is to provide healthcare professionals whose work involve vaccine safety issues, with essential knowledge about vaccines and their safety aspects.
- Measles outbreak training: This course provides the essential preparedness, detection, investigation, response and recovery skills required to contain a measles outbreak.
- Safety in administering medicines for neglected tropical diseases: This course provides practical tools, training modules and job aids to further improve the planning, preparation and monitoring of safe administration of NTD medicines.
- Surgical site infections: This course will cover global surgical site infections (SSI) burden, risk factors and prevention measures you can take to reduce SSI.
Join OpenWHO in the fight against TB
Though TB is a preventable and curable disease, it remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. Each day, over 4 100 people lose their lives to TB, and close to 28 000 people fall ill. Progress has been made globally. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has put these gains at risk.
Learn more on how to fight TB through the courses available on our End TB channel: 1) Tuberculosis preventive treatment; 2) Rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection; and 3) Drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment.
New translations
The following 17 translations have been launched this month:
Updates to course content:
The following course materials have been revised to reflect updates to the technical content and are now up to date:
We are pleased to announce that OpenWHO now has 44 courses on COVID-19 and 100 courses on other key health topics, spread across 64 languages. All courses for COVID-19 can be accessed here. You can use the toolbar to filter courses by language. You can also access our catalogues which show all courses and languages available for COVID-19 and other health topics here.
#NoExcuse #StopSEAH webinar series on OpenWHO
WHO is committed to capacitating our workforce, partners and collaborators to prevent, protect from and respond effectively and quickly to any allegation of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).
Visit our dedicated page on OpenWHO here which will be regularly updated with video resources addressing this topic. In the latest video that was added to the repository, you will hear from experts on the progress and challenges that humanitarian and emergency response agencies face in combatting SEAH.
Monthly newsletter
You can access the most recent newsletter here. The newsletter highlights are also available in Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Best wishes,
OpenWHO team
2.Celebrating World Humanitarian Day
As we mark World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, OpenWHO is proud to host free multilingual learning resources to support the response to humanitarian crises. This includes a new course on food insecurity available in English and French, as well as 18 courses in Ukrainian to support the response to health emergencies in Ukraine.
OpenWHO also offers online courses that address many diseases currently causing outbreaks, including:
New courses and languages
We are pleased to announce the following courses that were recently made available:
- The Food Insecurity and Health Readiness and Response Strategic Framework: This course introduces the basic concept of food insecurity, the main implications of food insecurity and food crises on health, health systems and programming, and the structure and content of the Strategic Framework. The course is also available in French.
- African Vaccines Regulatory Forum clinical trials inspections: This online training is designed to complement the African Vaccine Regulatory Forum (AVAREF) guideline and checklist for the inspection of clinical trials.
- Malaria elimination: This course aims to equip learners with the knowledge and skills to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate a programme for malaria elimination and prevention of re-establishment of transmission.
- Inequality monitoring in HIV, tuberculosis and malaria: This course introduces the general steps of inequality monitoring in the context of HIV, TB and malaria, which should be an integral part of country programmes.
- Understanding and using WHO guidelines on tuberculosis: This course explains how TB guidelines are developed, how the GRADE approach relates, how to interpret the certainty of evidence, and how guidelines can be accessed and adapted to the local context.
- Onchocerciasis: training of health workers at national and district levels on skin-NTDs: This course examines the epidemiology of onchocerciasis, clinical aspects, impact, diagnosis, treatment and control, elimination, public health interventions and role of community health workers.
- Noma: training of health workers at national and district levels on skin-NTDs: This course addresses epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment and public health considerations, including the human rights perspective of noma.
New translations
The following 19 translations have been launched this month:
- Cholera in Ukrainian
- SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid diagnostic testing in Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese
- Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) for COVID-19 in Georgian
- Hand hygiene in Armenian
- Introduction to IPC in Armenian
- Go.Data in French
- Ready for Response Tier 1 in French
- Ready for Response Tier 2 in French
- Vaccine safety basics in Chinese
- Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: Initial approach to the acutely ill patient in Russian
- Empowering communities before, during, and after an infectious disease outbreak in Spanish and Russian
- Social and behavioural insights COVID-19 data collection tool in French
- African Vaccines Regulatory Forum clinical trials inspections in French and Portuguese
- Mycetoma in Arabic
- Tungiasis in French
Updates to course content
The following course materials have been revised to reflect updates to the technical content and are now up to date:
We are pleased to announce that OpenWHO now has 46 courses on COVID-19, with a total of 165 courses spread across 65 languages. All courses for COVID-19 can be accessed here. You can use the toolbar to filter courses by language. You can also access our catalogues which show all courses and languages available for COVID-19 and other health topics here.
Monthly newsletter
You can access the most recent newsletter here. The newsletter highlights are also available in Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Best wishes,
OpenWHO team
