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New courses and languages on OpenWHO this month
Monthly newsletter

You can access the most recent newsletter here<https://openwho.org/pages/monthly_newsletter?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>. Please note that currently the newsletter is available in English only, but the newsletter highlights can be accessed in Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

New courses

We are pleased to announce the following courses which have recently become available on OpenWHO:

·         Strengthening collaboration between human and animal health sectors for improved health security<https://openwho.org/courses/human-animal-health-sectors?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>: This webinar-based course provides insight into some of WHO’s work at the animal-human-environment interface.

·         Introduction to Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)<https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-INTRO-EN?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>: Infection prevention and control (IPC) is an essential component of healthcare quality and patient safety. In this module you will learn how and why healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur and how IPC reduces their risk and spread.

New courses and languages for COVID-19

New courses launched for COVID-19

·         COVID-19 and work: Staying healthy and safe at work during the COVID-19 pandemic<https://openwho.org/courses/COVID-19-and-work?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>: This course is intended to guide workers and their representatives, business leaders, managers, as well as occupational health and safety professionals in protecting their workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic.

·         COVID-19 Infodemic management: Risk communication and community engagement challenges)<https://openwho.org/courses/RCCE-COVID-19?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>: The course covers key RCCE and then shows how they can be operationalized in the context of an extended outbreak that affects different populations with varied risk levels.

·         Clinical management of patients with COVID-19 - Rehabilitation of patients with COVID-19<https://openwho.org/courses/clinical-management-COVID-19-rehabilitation?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>: This course provides crucial knowledge on the rehabilitation needs of patients recovering from COVID-19, including patients with cognitive impairment, physical deconditioning and weakness, respiratory impairment, swallow impairment, communication impairment and challenges in completing activities of daily living.

·         Leadership and programme management in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)<https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-leadership-EN?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>: In this course, we will explore characteristics of a leader and different types of leadership, and how leadership skills are essential for effective communication and conflict management.

·         Neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: impact and guidance<https://openwho.org/courses/covid-19-ntd-en?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>: This course provides a general introduction to the diseases, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on NTD programmes, and focuses on the adaptations needed to safely and effectively fight NTDs, in light of the disruption to health services caused by the pandemic.

New translations

The following 17 translations for COVID-19 have been launched this month:

  *   Clinical management of patients with COVID-19 in Albanian<https://openwho.org/courses/menaxhimi-klinik-KOVID-19-konsideratat-e-pergjithshme?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE> and Macedonian<https://openwho.org/courses/clinical-management-COVID-19-general-considerations-mk?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>
  *   Hand Hygiene in Albanian<https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-HH-sq?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>, Macedonian<https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-HH-mk?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE> and Tamil<https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-HH-ta?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>
  *   How to put on and remove personal protective equipment in Sinhala<https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-PPE-SI?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE> and Tamil<https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-PPE-TA?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>
  *   Long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19 Albanian<https://openwho.org/courses/LTCF-COVID-19-SQ?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE> and Macedonian<https://openwho.org/courses/LTCF-COVID-19-MK?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>
  *   Introduction to COVID-19 in Fulah<https://openwho.org/courses/bayaanu-haa-dow-nyawu-COVID-19?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>, Latvian<https://openwho.org/courses/ievadkurss-par-COVID-19?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE> and Sinhala<https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-to-COVID-19-SI?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>
  *   Injection Safety in Tetum<https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-IS-TET?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>
  *   Occupational Health and Safety in Swahili<https://openwho.org/courses/COVID-19-afya-na-usalama-mahala-pa-kazi?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>
  *   eProtect in Thai<https://openwho.org/courses/eprotect-acute-respiratory-infections-TH?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>
  *   Environmental cleaning in Indonesian<https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-EC-ID?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>
  *   COVID-19 vaccination training for health workers in Indonesian<https://openwho.org/courses/covid-19-vaksinasi-tenagakesehatan?tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>

All courses for COVID-19 can be accessed here<https://openwho.org/courses?topic=COVID-19&tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>. You can use the toolbar to filter courses by language.

Updates to course content

The following course materials have been revised to reflect updates to the technical content and are now up to date:

  *   Introduction to COVID-19 in English Module 1. All other languages are currently being updated.

Complete list of COVID-19 learning resources

We are pleased to announce that OpenWHO now has 169 courses for COVID-19 spread across 45 languages and 27 topics. In summary, OpenWHO currently offers courses covering the following topics and languages to support the response to COVID-19:

·         Introduction to COVID-19 (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Amharic, Bengali, Dari, Fulah, German, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Indian Sign Language, Indonesian, Kurdish, Latvian, Macedonian, Marathi, Oriya, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Serbian, Sinhala, Somali, Swahili, Tetum, Turkish, Vietnamese, Urdu, Yoruba and Zulu)

·         Clinical care SARI (available in Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Tetum and Vietnamese)

·         Health and safety briefing for respiratory diseases – ePROTECT (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Albanian, Bengali, Indonesian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Sinhala, Tetum, Thai and Vietnamese)

·         IPC for COVID-19 (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Bengali, Dutch, Farsi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Sinhala, Somali, Tetum, Turkish and Vietnamese)

·         COVID-19 operational planning guidelines and partners platform to support country preparedness and response (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian and Portuguese)

·         SARI treatment facility design (available in Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Italian, Portugues, Tetum, and Vietnamese)

·         An introduction to Go.Data (available in English, Spanish and Mongolian)

·         How to put on and remove PPE for COVID-19 (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Albanian, Dutch, Macedonian, Portuguese, Sinhala, Somali, Tamil, Tetum, Thai and Turkish)

·         Standard precautions for hand hygiene (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Albanian, Dutch, Macedonian, Portuguese, Sinhala, Somali, Tamil, Tetum and Turkish)

·         Standard precautions for waste management (available in English and Tetum)

·         Decontamination and sterilization of medical devices (available in English)

·         Standard precautions for environmental cleaning and disinfection (available in English, Indonesian and Tetum)

·         Standard precautions for injection safety and needle-stick injury management (available in English and Tetum)

·         Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) core components and multimodal strategies (available in English)

·         Basic microbiology (available in English)

·         WHO COVID-19 Mass Gatherings Risk Assessment Training (available in English)

·         Occupational health and safety for health workers in the context of COVID-19 (available in English, Spanish, Macedonian, Portuguese, and Swahili)

·         Long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19 (available in English, Albanian, Dutch, Macedonian, and Indonesian)

·         Course 1: Clinical management of patients with COVID-19 - General considerations (available in English, Albanian, and Macedonian)

·         Management and Facilitation of a Country COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR) (available in English)

·         COVID-19 vaccination training for health workers (available in English and Indonesian)

·         Orientation to national deployment and vaccination planning for COVID-19 vaccines (available in English)

·         Clinical management of patients with COVID-19 - Rehabilitation of patients with COVID-19 (available in English)

·         Neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: impact and guidance (available in English)

·         Leadership and programme management in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) (available in English)

·         COVID-19 and work: Staying healthy and safe at work during the COVID-19 pandemic (available in English)

·         COVID-19 Infodemic management: Risk communication and community engagement challenges (available in English)

To mark the coming International Women's Day on Monday 8 March, OpenWHO would like to explore the challenges women face with regard to learning in an emergency. We want to hear how women are using OpenWHO materials to reduce the gaps in access to health emergencies knowledge in their communities, organisations, and with peers. Help us to understand better the challenges women face by completing this short survey for International Women's Day here<https://openwho.org/go/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2FPages%2FResponsePage.aspx%3Fid%3Dt8AQ9iS9OUuBCz3CgK-1kGc4A-7ao19Fhc6FGGUFrJVUQjIxMlMyRDFOUjM5VEQ2NEI2TDZQTFdTNy4u&checksum=7780d85&tracking_user=193vELZ2ansn4YoKe1eRMw&tracking_type=news&tracking_id=2MUxgssM4Hcwy5mSrDgbPE>.

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OpenWHO team

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