The course will deal with infectious diseases of public health importance in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa. It will situate issues associated with infectious diseases within the wider socioeconomic and political contexts of the infectious diseases that will be considered. Approaches will include definitions and taxonomy, outbreak investigations, disease surveillance (passive and active), case-control studies, cohort studies, and dynamics of transmission. Case studies will be selected from respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, malaria, and meningitis, other vector-borne diseases. Students will also be introduced to techniques for mathematical modelling of infectious diseases.

Objective: By the end of the course the student should be able to explain the dynamics of the epidemiology of infectious

Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, guest lectures, individual and group presentations.