Topic outline
- General
- Background
Background
Overview: As of March 2021, several COVID-19 vaccines have been authorized or approved for human use by stringent regulatory authorities and WHO and are now being deployed by countries. Understanding different products’ characteristics is crucial for the success of vaccination efforts. This course provides vaccine-specific information on COVID-19 vaccines that were listed for emergency use. It is intended to be used by vaccinators, clinicians, logisticians, and other focal points involved in COVID-19 vaccination.
Course duration: Approximately 10 minutes
Certificates: A Confirmation of Participation is available to participants who complete 100% of the course material.
Please note that further videos and resources concerning other vaccines will be added as they receive emergency use listing (EUL) or prequalification.
Please note: These materials were last updated on 09/09/2022.
- Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
Learning objective: By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Handle, prepare, and administer the COVID-19 vaccine products presented in the course;
- Describe the vaccine-specific information including presentation and schedule, administration and safety, storage, handling, labelling and packaging;
- Recognize and respond to anaphylaxis.
- Course contents
Course contents
Introduction to the course:
By the end of this module, you should be able to: explain why the course was created, what are its learning objectives, and how it is organised.Module 1: Introduction to infodemic management:
By the end of this module, you should be able to: explain what an infodemic is and why we should care; and describe why we all have a role to play in managing infodemics.Module 2: Introduction to the science of misinformation:
By the end of this module, you should be able to: demonstrate the difference between misinformation and disinformation, identify some of the most common strategies used to spread false and misleading information; recall some of the most frequent fallacies used in COVID-19 news.Module 3: Verification and fact checking in a health crisis:
By the end of this module, you should be able to: describe what is factchecking and who are its main actors and tools; identify misleading and verify visual content onlineModule 4: Prebunking, debunking and inoculation theory:
By the end of this module, you should be able to: explain prebunking and debunking concepts; identify some prebunking and debunking techniques; describe what is the inoculation concept; and list technics to amplify credible health information.Module 5: Interventions’ design and empowerment of communities:
By the end of this module, you should be able to: assess the impact of misinformation on trust, risk perception, behaviors, and cognition; identify some practical ways to ensure likely uptake of messages and behaviors in communities; describe methods to design multiple levels’ interventions based on specific knowledge or behavior objectives; and describe the role that community engagement can play in responding to public health crises.Final Quiz
- Where to find these materials?
Where to find these materials?
You can take this e-learning on the WHO platform, OpenWHO, following this link
Note, if you don't have a WHO account you may need to create a new one. Alternatively you may take the course as guest without getting a certificate.