At the end of the course, students should have a profound understanding of:
- using burden information for priority setting and how to present this information to national decision makers.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- calculate Daily Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) as a measure of disease burden
- explain the importance of situation analysis
- describe and compare methods to perform stakeholder analyses
- suggest which factors should be considered as prompts to identify local hazards
- locate and obtain hazard specific data
- describe which country specific data are needed
- use Excel to compute disease burden
- use the BCoDE DALY calculator to compute disease burden
- indicate which hazards require source attribution
- describe which regional estimates for attribution are available
- list the elements that should be described in a comprehensive report on foodborne disease
- Select studies that may be used to provide comparative contextual information on foodborne disease.
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Period (from-till): 14 -18 January 2019
Course coordinator: Dr. Sara Burt. (OneHealth.MSc@uu.nl)
Course description:
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Risk Assessment of Pathogens in Food and Water, hosted by RIVM, presents the course ‘Foodborne burden of disease estimation at the national level’.
Foodborne diseases occur worldwide.
Calculating the burden of disease is helpful for setting priorities in health risk management. We developed this interdisciplinary course specifically for capacity building in low-resource settings, and would like to try it out here in the Netherlands. During this pilot course, we would like to hear your feedback so we can improve it.
During the course you will learn:
- How to calculate the burden of disease for foodborne diseases using software tools
- To work with the concept of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)
- To perform a stakeholder analysis for the food sector
- How to approach setting up a study on foodborne burden of diseases at the national level
- Knowledge translation to define intervention strategies in a One Health approach
The four-day course will take place 14-18 January 2019 at the RIVM premises in Bilthoven. The course will be taught in English.
Faculty:
Dr. Lucie Vermeulen, scientific staff member at the RIVM Centre for Zoonoses & Environmental Microbiology. She works mainly on environmental modelling of infectious diseases.
Dr. Joke van der Giessen, veterinary microbiologist at the RIVM Centre for Zoonoses & Environmental Microbiology. Her research focus is public health aspects (incl surveillance, risk assessment and evaluation of intervention strategies in the food chain) of zoonoses.
Dr. Juanita Haagsma, Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health of the Erasmus MC University Medical Center. Her research focuses mainly measurement of health-related quality of life and burden of disease estimates of injury and infectious disease.
Literature/study material used:
- WHO 2015. WHO estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases: foodborne disease burden epidemiology reference group 2007-2015.
- BCoDE software
- RIVM reports and publications
- Scientific journal articles
Registration:
Via the Studyguide (course coordinator)
Mandatory for students in own Master’s programme:
No
Optional for students in other GSLS Master’s programme:
Yes, only specific GSLS programmes: Master Toxicology & Environmental health, Master One health
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic knowledge on microbiology and infectious disease, use of Word, Excel and PPT
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