Ecology, epidemiology and control of infectious diseases

Theoretical lectures (40 hours to follow online: you can do this at your own pace)

• General population ecology
• Parasite ecology
• Geography of infectious diseases, biodiversity, climate effects
• Epidemiology of tropical infectious diseases (a.o. study designs, qualitative vs. quantitative methods, screening, sampling, data entry/analysis)
• Epidemiology of infectious diseases: risk-analyses, dynamical simulation models
• Model system: Malaria
• Organisation of disease control programs

Exercises in Excel

• Population dynamics models
• Simple static disease models
• Dynamical disease models
• Rule-based models

• Most of this course is self-study: lectures and practice sessions are recorded and put online
• Personal work: exercises that will be discussed online