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COVID-19 Digital Classroom Courses

The COVID-19 course series is part of the COVID-19 Digital Classroom initiative. These courses are primarily designed for community-based health workers who practice in low- and middle-income countries. It covers a range of topics on COVID-19, including basic information on the virus and how to mitigate its public health effects. The course is designed to synthesize the most important, high-level information on COVID-19 from a variety of well-respected resources in a practical way. Many of the resources are cited for your reference and include documents and guidelines from the World Health Organization, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the UN, and many other reliable sources. While community-based health workers are the primary audience for this course series, the topics covered are relevant for everyone involved in responding to this pandemic worldwide.

It is important to note that while these courses provide a generalized overview of COVID-19 and information on how to contain the spread of the disease, they cannot account for everything, especially as we are still learning day-to-day about the virus and its impact on our health and society. Therefore, please use this course as a guide, and continue to familiarize yourself with your context, including your country’s public health guidelines, in order to best customize the content we cover here for you and your community’s specific needs.

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COVID-19 Facilitator Guide

September 9, 2020/in Infographics, Training/Education Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, United States Agency for International Development Guyana English Handwashing, Masks, Prevention, Risk Communication and Messaging, Vaccines Health Workers and Facilities, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

The Breakthrough ACTION Guyana COVID-19 Facilitator Guide is a set of cue cards that are used by community facilitators to conduct community meetings or one on one sessions with community members.

The guide contains simple and important information about COVID-19 and helps the community facilitator in providing accurate information to the community.

Source: COVID-19 Facilitator Guide

How Can I Ask My Friends to Wear Masks? Talking to Friends, Family, Kids, and Coworkers About COVID-19 Safety

September 2, 2020/in SBC Materials, Training/Education Johns Hopkins University United States English Masks, Social/Physical Distancing Communities, General Public/by Shane Harper

Navigating the interpersonal side of recommendations about wearing masks and physical distancing can be tricky. Physical distancing runs counter to many of our social norms and complicates the ways we work, celebrate milestones, and generally interact with other humans. Things can get even more complicated when people’s boundaries and perceived levels of safety are in conflict.

So, what do you say to a friend who insists that COVID-19 is no worse than the flu? How do you talk to your parents who keep going to restaurants to eat indoors? What if a beloved family member wants you to come to their wedding or birthday party and you don’t feel safe attending? How do you talk to your kids about safety without scaring them too much?

This guide lays out scenarios like these, and specialists Laura Murray, PhD, clinical psychologist and senior scientist in the Department of Mental Health, weighs in on the interpersonal side of pandemic precautions. Crystal Watson, DrPH, a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security, provides practical underpinnings based on current research, data, and public health guidance.

Source: How Can I Ask My Friends to Wear Masks? Talking to Friends, Family, Kids, and Coworkers About COVID-19 Safety

COVID-19 Contact Tracing Online Course

September 2, 2020/in Online Course, Training/Education Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Global English Contact Tracing, COVID-19 Response Health Workers and Facilities, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly. The job qualifications for contact tracing positions differ throughout the country and the world, with some new positions open to individuals with a high school diploma or equivalent.

In this introductory course, students will learn about the science of SARS-CoV-2 , including the infectious period, the clinical presentation of COVID-19, and the evidence for how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted from person-to-person and why contact tracing can be such an effective public health intervention. Students will learn about how contact tracing is done, including how to build rapport with cases, identify their contacts, and support both cases and their contacts to stop transmission in their communities.

The course will also cover several important ethical considerations around contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine. Finally, the course will identify some of the most common barriers to contact tracing efforts — along with strategies to overcome them.

Source: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Online Course

COVID-19 Training of Trainers Curriculum

August 24, 2020/in Training/Education Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, United States Agency for International Development Guyana English Engagement, Prevention, Risk Communication and Messaging Communities, Health Workers and Facilities/by Shane Harper

This is a training curriculum developed for Breakthrough ACTION Guyana Regional Support Coordinators to appropriately recruit and train Community Volunteer Facilitators to disseminate messages within their communities.

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COVID-19 Kenya – Clinical Guidance and Job Aid Tracker

August 5, 2020/in Clinical/Technical Guidance, Tools, Training/Education Kenya Ministry of Health, USAID Kenya Kenya English, Kiswahili Healthcare, Prevention, Symptoms Health Workers and Facilities, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

This resource, produced by the Kenya Ministry of Health in partnership with USAID, tracks technical guidance about COVID-19 and lists useful job aids for health workers. The tracker offers a brief description of each piece of guidance/job aid, a link to where it can be found, and the topic which it covers.

Source: COVID-19 Kenya – Clinical Guidance and Job Aid Tracker

COVID-19 Kenya – Knowledge Sharing Tracker

August 5, 2020/in App, Clinical/Technical Guidance, Technical Briefs, Tools, Training/Education Kenya Ministry of Health, Other partners, USAID Kenya Kenya English, Kiswahili Healthcare, Prevention, Research/Monitoring and Evaluation Health Workers and Facilities, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

This resource, produced by the Kenya Ministry of Health in partnership with USAID, tracks reports, presentations, documents, and other tools which are being accumulated as new information about COVID-19 in Kenya is published. Several topics include: gender, PWD, informal settlement, COVID response/survey, wildlife, malnutrition, etc.

Source: COVID-19 Kenya – Knowledge Sharing Tracker

Free E-books for Children About Coronavirus

July 29, 2020/in Infographics, Testimonials, Training/Education, Web Resources New York City Library Global Multiple Entertainment Education, Handwashing, Masks, Prevention Children (under 12), Parents and Caregivers of Children/by Shane Harper

The New York City School Library System website has a page which offers a large collection of free e-books for children about COVID-19. The books are from many countries, in a selection of languages. All of the books are free to download from the site.

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3-D Simulation about Social Distancing

June 17, 2020/in News and Updates, Training/Education Kyoto Institute of Technology, The New York Times Global English Masks, Social/Physical Distancing Communities, General Public/by Shane Harper

Scientists who study the transmission of respiratory illnesses like influenza say that infections typically happen when a healthy person comes into contact with respiratory droplets from an infected person’s cough, sneeze or breath.

This simulation, created using research data from the Kyoto Institute of Technology, offers one view of what can happen when someone coughs indoors. A cough produces respiratory droplets of varying sizes. Larger droplets fall to the floor, or break up into smaller droplets.

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COVID-19 Guide for Community Health Workers

June 1, 2020/in Training/Education, Web Resources Better Care South Africa English Masks, Personal Protection Equipment, Prevention Communities, Health Workers and Facilities/by Shane Harper

Community health workers (CHWs) serve as a very important direct link between patients, communities and health services. As trusted on-the-ground support to community members, they therefore expand access to essential healthcare information as well as available treatment and prevention programmes.

This course book provides appropriate, cost-effective, and sustainable targeted learning for the large numbers of emerging community health workers in South Africa.

This online book includes these chapters:

Introduction to COVID-19
Diagnosing and managing COVID-19
How to prevent the spread of COVID-19
Protecting yourself from COVID-19

These chapters have been successfully used as part of the Skills to Care learning programme for the Lukhanji Municipality and Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape, funded by the Small Projects Foundation.

Source: COVID-19 Guide for Community Health Workers

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