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Understanding Risk and Sustainable Development

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Overview

Learn about global risk governance and sustainable development through a comprehensive course focusing on COVID-19 response strategies, emerging respiratory viruses, and disaster management. Explore WHO's methods for virus detection and prevention, understand the connection between Sustainable Development Goals and pandemic response, and analyze crisis management through case studies of COVID-19, cyclones, and forest fires. Examine China's COVID-19 response, discover community-based approaches to public health emergencies through IFRC's framework, and delve into cultural risk perception through Chinese philosophy. Master practical skills in rapid health assessment, epidemic control for volunteers, and risk communication while gaining insights into regional impacts and national actions across Asia. Available in both English and Chinese, gain expertise from leading organizations including WHO, IARC, and IFRC, as well as renowned experts in the field of risk management and sustainable development.

Syllabus

  • Opening: COVID-19 Response and Sustainable Future of Global Risk Governance
    • Unit 1 WHO: Emerging respiratory viruses, including COVID-19: methods for detection, prevention, re
      • Introduction
      • Module A: Introduction to Emerging respiratory viruses, including COVID-19
      • Module B: Detecting Emerging respiratory viruses, including COVID-19: Surveillance and Laboratory investigation
      • Module C: Risk Communication and Community Engagement
      • Module D: Preventing and Responding to an emerging respiratory virus, including COVID-19
    • Unit 2 Devanand Ramiah: Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Response to COVID-19
      • Unit 3 Arnold Howitt: COVID-19, Cyclone, and Bush Fire: Managing Risk
        • First session: ACTING IN TIME: A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR RISK GOVERNANCE
        • Second Session: COVID-19, CYCLONES, AND FOREST FIRES: MANAGING CRISES
      • Unit 4 IARC: Fighting COVID-19 in China
        • Unit 5 IFRC: Role of Communities in Managing Public Health Emergencies
          • Introduction
          • Topic 1 - Definitions
          • Topic 2 - Rapid Health Assessment
          • Topic 3 - Community Methodologies
          • Topic 4 - Epidemic Control for Volunteers
          • Final Assessment
          • Q&A
        • Unit 6 Lu Qibin: Cultural Risk Perception: Icheng and Chinese Risk Philosophy
          • Thematic Discussion: COVID-19 in Asia: regional impact and national action;
            • 开场:新冠肺炎疫情应对与全球风险治理的可持续未来
              • 第1单元 世卫组织:包括新冠肺炎疫情在内的新发呼吸道病毒的发现、预防、应对与控制方法
                • 介绍
                • 模块A:新发呼吸道病毒简介—包括新冠肺炎疫情
                • 模块B:识别新发呼吸道病毒—包括新冠肺炎疫情:实验室调查
                • 模块C: 风险沟通和社区参与
                • 模块D:预防及响应新发呼吸道病毒—包括新冠肺炎疫情
              • 第2单元 Devanand Ramia:可持续发展目标和新冠肺炎疫情的全球应对
                • 第3单元 Arnold Howitt:管理风险 -新冠肺炎疫情、旋风和森林火灾
                  • 第一节 Arnold Howitt - 及时行动:风险治理的综合框架
                  • 第二节 Arnold Howitt – 新冠肺炎疫情、旋风和森林火灾:是什么造成了危机?
                • 第4单元 IARC:中国抗疫经验分享
                  • 第5单元 IFRC:社区在管理突发公共卫生事件中的作用
                    • 介绍
                    • 主题1 定义
                    • 主题2 快速公共卫生评估
                    • 主题3 基于社区的方法
                    • 主题4 志愿者的流行病防控
                  • 第6单元 陆奇斌:风险认知与文化

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                    Humanitarian & Sustainable Development Initiative (HDI)

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