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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences : Global Health

Postgraduate Course: Credits Awarded to Taught Courses [University of Glasgow] Infectious Disease Ecology BIOL5123 (GLHE11091)

Course Outline
SchoolDeanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis is a placeholder course, designed to record marks for the University of Glasgow part of the programme, PRPHDISPME1F: Precision Medicine (PhD with Integrated Study).
Course description Please see [University of Glasgow] Infectious Disease Ecology and the Dynamics of Emerging Disease (BIOL5123) for Course Description.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Critically discuss the distinction between: frequency and density-dependent transmission; micro and macroparasite models, the concept of herd immunity, the principles behind standard vaccination strategies, the distinction between and appropriate use of stochastic and deterministic formulations, the definition and conceptual framework for the basic reproduction number, the concept of critical community size, the context for use of metapopulation models, impacts of host heterogeneity on infection dynamics, the use of standard model types in the epidemiological literature
  2. Program standard epidemiological models in R and interpret outputs
  3. Calculate the basic reproduction number for simple epidemiological models
  4. Identify and interpret equilibria in standard epidemiological models
  5. Generate a mathematical description of an infection dynamics model for a problem of their own choice
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Susan Farrington
Tel: (0131) 332 2471
Email: Susan.Farrington@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Maree Hardie
Tel:
Email: maree.hardie@ed.ac.uk
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