Selected Topics in Infectious Diseases and Vaccines (2016)

Selected Topics in Infectious Diseases and Vaccines

Instructors:

Daniel Cohen (TAU), Jonathan Zenilman (JHU), Anne Rompalo (JHU)Myron Levine (UMB), Elizabeth Miller (TAU, LSHTM), Tamy Shohat (TAU, MOH), and Khitam Muhsen (TAU)

Date & Time:

July 10-14, 2016 
S, M, Th 14:00-18:30 | T, W 14:00-19:00

Location:

Room TBA, Sackler Faculty of Medicine

Final Exam:

July 15, 2016 | 9:00-11:00 | Room TBA

Pre-requisites:

None

Credits: 2
Application: Apply now: English (International) | ​Hebrew (Israeli)

Course Syllabus

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Course Description

The first part of the course will review the current burden of infectious diseases in developing and developed countries, including recent emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola, MERS-CoV, and Zika virus. Risk factors and modes of prevention and control will be examined, as well as current surveillance systems and the integration of advanced epidemiologic tools and modern laboratory capabilities in the detection and characterization of endemic and epidemic agents. Steps in quantifying the burden of infectious diseases will be explained and practiced using foodborne, diarrheal, and sexually transmitted diseases as examples. The course will also address the universal impact of hospital/nosocomial infections, as well as how understanding the role of the microbiome is changing the approach to infectious diseases.

The second part of the course will review current immunization programs and characteristics of the licensed vaccines and present the stages of the clinical development of new vaccines including post-licensure evaluation of effectiveness and signal detection of adverse events. Special attention will be given to methodological and ethical challenges during the accelerated development of vaccines against emerging diseases and the epidemiology-based decisions to prioritize development of specific vaccines. The course will also offer the opportunity to learn about the recent experience with novel strategies of immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases such as immunization of pregnant women to prevent pertussis in infants and about new vaccines and strategies of immunization against influenza. The course will conclude with an assessment on the vaccines and immunizations programs of the future (by 2040) in terms of target diseases, type of vaccines, delivery routes, etc. 

Requirements

Participants must pass the final exam with a grade of at least 60 (D) to receive academic credit for the course. Non-credit participants are not required to take the final exam.​

Lecturers Bio
Dani Cohen, PhD, MPH
Co-Director, Summer Institute 
Head, School of Public Health Tel Aviv University

Myron Levine MD, DTPH
Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Elizabeth Miller
Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
​​Head, Immunization Department, Health Protection Agency, Center for Infections, United Kingdom

Anne M. Rompalo, MD, ScM
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Jonathan Zenilman, MD
Co-Director, Summer Institute
Chief, Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
 
Tamy Shohat, MD, MPH
Co-Director, Summer Institute
Director, Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, TAU-SPH
 
Khitam Muhsen, PhD
 

Contact Information

International: Ms. Zoe Blatt | summersph@post.tau.ac.il​ 
Israeli:
 Mr. Michael Brik | sph.tau@gmail.com | 03-6408572 | Hebrew Website

 

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