Year 4 BSc 2011-12
Module leader
Professor Helen Ward
Global health module 1
Monday 10 October - Friday 11 November 2011
Module 1: Infectious diseases - timetable [Word]

Handbook [Word]


PowerPoint presentations, unless otherwise indicated:
Mon 10 Oct Introduction [pdf] - Dr Graham Cooke
Future trends in infectious diseases [pdf] - Dr Graham Cooke
Tues 11 Oct The swine flu epidemic [pdf] - Dr Jake Dunning
Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases [pdf] - Dr Peter White
Modelling the influenza pandemic [pdf] - Dr Peter White
Wed 12 Oct

Latent TB infection; its diagnosis and importance to TB control - Professor Ajit Lalvani

Border policy and TB control [pdf] - Dr Manish Pareek
Challenges in paediatric tuberculosis [pdf] - Professor Beate Kampmann
Fri 14 Oct Tuberculosis: drug resistance and global health [pdf] - Dr Graham Cooke

Integrating MDR TB care in Burma, Uzbekistan and Uganda [pdf] - Dr Philipp du Cros

Mon 17 Oct Overcoming the barriers to treatment of HIV in Africa - Dr Nathan Ford
Tues 18 Oct Burden of disease - Dr Wendy Harrison
Introduction to neglected zoonotic diseases - Dr Wendy Harrison
Wed 19 Oct Diarrhoeal disease [pdf] - Dr Graham Cooke
Pathogens and dirty water [pdf] - Professor Stephen Smith
Water, sanitation and health in the developing world [pdf] - Dr Michael Templeton
Thurs 20 Oct Introduction to neglected tropical diseases [pdf] - Professor Alan Fenwick
The more neglected tropical diseases [pdf] - Professor Alan Fenwick
Health, equity and education for all - Mr Aulo Gelli
Mass treatment and drug resistance [pdf] - Professor Joanne Webster
Fri 21 Oct Research methods: Outbreak investigation [pdf] - Bethan Davies
Mon 24 Oct Joint teaching day at UCL: Industrialization [pdf] - Mike Rowson
Reading: Case study prospects for the Tanzanian pharmaceutical industry [pdf]
Tues 25 Oct Principles of vaccination [pdf] - Dr Alasdair Bamford
Group discussion exercise [pdf] - Dr Alasdair Bamford
Reading: New decade of vaccines [pdf] - The Lancet, June 2011
Inpatient mortality in South Sudan – a case for expanding vaccination? - Miss Rahma Elmahdi
Wed 26 Oct

Reading: Guidelines for intensified tuberculosis case-finding and isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings - WHO

Challenges and strategies for TB contact tracing in UK and South Africa - Martin Dedicoat
What are the obstacles to elimination of polio? [pdf] - Dr Kath O'Reilly
Fri 28 Oct Reading: Qiao, 2008: A new HPV-DNA test for cervical cancer screening in developing regions: a cross-sectional study of clinical accuracy in rural China [pdf]
Newall, 2007: Cost-effectiveness analyses of human papillomavirus vaccination [pdf]
Zur Hausen, 2008: Papillomaviruses in the causation of human cancers [pdf]
[Franco E, 1991] Inconsistencies HPV-ICC
Early warning system for public concerns about vaccine safety [pdf] - Dr Heidi Larson
The global challenge of HPV and scaling up vaccination - Dr Iacopo Baussano
Mon 31 Oct Sexually transmitted infection, BBV and global health [pdf] - Dr Graham Cooke
How will we prevent HIV infection? - Professor Jonathan Weber
Current status of HIV vaccine research - Professor Robin Shattock
ART to prevent HIV transmission in Africa - Dr Sarah Fidler
Tues 1 Nov The global challenge of syphilis [pdf] - Mr Craig Tipple
Outbreak investigation [pdf] + case study [Word] - Ruby Siddiqui
Thurs 3 Nov Health worker migration [pdf] - Dr Mariam Sbaiti

Research methods: Case studies of STI [pdf] - Professor Helen Ward and Professor Sophie Day

Fri 4 Nov How can we minimize HBV-related disease? - Dr Graham Cooke
Critical appraisal: RCT + appraisal paper [pdf] - Dr Graham Cooke

Reading: What makes clinical research in developing countries ethical? The benchmarks of ethical research [pdf] - PERSPECTIVE JID 2004:189,1 March

Ethics debate [Word] - Dr Mariam Sbaiti, Dr Wing May Kong
Mon 7 Nov Vector borne disease: global health and trends [pdf] - Dr Graham Cooke
Malaria and travel: where does it come from? [pdf] - Dr Déirdre Hollingsworth
Reading: Mortality after fluid bolus in African children with severe infection - n engl j med 364;26 nejm.org, 30 June 2011
+ Supplementary appendix[pdf]
Video: FEAST clinical trial
Treating critical illness in children in sub Saharan African + part 2 [pdf] - Professor Kath Maitland
Tues 8 Nov Vector control strategies for malaria [pdf] - Dr John Marshall
Can we eliminate malaria with current intervention tools? [pdf] - Professor María-Gloria Basáñez

Trachoma and the SAFE strategy - Dr Anthony Solomon

Wed 9 Nov Leishmaniases: Principles and unmet needs [pdf] - Dr Ingrid Muller
Dengue virus and dengue fever [pdf] - Professor Gavin Screaton
How will the control of infectious disease be improved by genomic analysis? [pdf] - Professor Christophe Fraser

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