World Health Organization’s training materials

This course provides a general introduction to Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) and basic hygiene measures to protect against infection. By the end of the course, you should be able to describe basic information about ARIs including what they are, how they are transmitted, how to assess the risk of infection and list basic hygiene measures to protect against infection. This course consists of 4 modules containing available videos and presentations to download. At the end of the course, you will be required to take the test.

RUS: https://openwho.org/courses/eprotect-acute-respiratory-infections-RU

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/eprotect-acute-respiratory-infections

This course is intended for clinicians who are working in intensive care units (ICUs) in low and middle-income countries and managing adult and pediatric patients with severe forms of acute respiratory infection (SARI), including severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis and septic shock. It is a hands-on practical guide to be used by health care professionals involved in critical care management during outbreaks of influenza virus (seasonal) human infection due avian influenza virus (H5N1, H7N9), MERS-CoV, nCoV or other emerging respiratory viral epidemics.

RUS: https://openwho.org/courses/severe-acute-respiratory-infection-ru

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/severe-acute-respiratory-infection

This course provides a general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel coronaviruses. By the end of this course, you should be able to describe:

• the nature of emerging respiratory viruses, how to detect and assess an outbreak, strategies for preventing and controlling outbreaks due to novel respiratory viruses;
• what strategies should be used to communicate risk and engage communities to detect, prevent and respond to the emergence of a novel respiratory virus.

There are resources attached to each module to help you dive further into this topic.

RUS: https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-to-COVID-19-RU

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-to-ncov

This course provides information on what facilities should be doing to be prepared to respond to a case of an emerging respiratory virus such as the novel coronavirus, how to identify a case once it occurs, and how to properly implement IPC measures to ensure there is no further transmission to HCW or to other patients and others in the healthcare facility.

This training is intended for healthcare workers and public health professionals, as it is focused on infection prevention and control.

RUS: https://openwho.org/courses/COVID-19-IPC-RU

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/COVID-19-IPC-EN

This 3-module learning package introduces the context for the need for a coordinated global response plan to the COVID-19 outbreak. It provides the required guidance to implement the Operational Planning Guidelines to Support Country Preparedness and Response. These planning guidelines describe priority steps and actions to be included in countries’ preparedness and response plans across the major areas of public health preparedness and response. This is aligned with the previously published COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP).

RUS: https://openwho.org/courses/UNCT-COVID19-preparedness-and-response-RU

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/UNCT-COVID19-preparedness-and-response-EN

This course provides principles, minimum requirements and technical specifications to design and set up SARI-related facilities though short lectures and technical tutorials. It targets personnel involved in preparedness and response, including health managers and planners, architects, engineers, logistics, water and sanitation staff, clinical and nursing staff and other health care providers, and health promoters.

RUS: https://openwho.org/courses/SARI-facilities-RU

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/SARI-facilities

This is a guide for healthcare workers involved in patient care activities in a healthcare setting. It aims to show the type of personal protective equipment or PPE needed to correctly protect oneself. Based on the current available evidence, the WHO recommended PPE for the care of COVID patients are CONTACT and DROPLET precautions, with the exception of aerosol producing procedures, which require CONTACT and AIRBORNE (hence, a respirator mask such as N95, FFP2, FFP3).

RUS: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-PPE-RU

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-PPE-EN/resume

Most health care-associated infections are preventable through good hand hygiene – cleaning hands at the right times and in the right way. The WHO Guidelines on hand hygiene in health care support hand hygiene promotion and improvement in health care facilities worldwide and are complemented by the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy, the guide to implementation, and implementation toolkit, which contain many ready-to-use practical tools. This module has been prepared to help summarize the WHO guidelines on hand hygiene, associated tools and ideas for effective implementation.

RUS: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-HH-RU

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-HH-en

In this course, you will learn about the different categories of waste and the process for waste management. Health care waste includes all waste generated by health, research and laboratory facilities in the course of providing health care services. Health care waste in a facility should be managed from point of generation to final disposal and removal.

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-WM-EN

The decontamination of instruments and medical devices plays a very important role in the prevention of health care-associated infections (HAIs). Indeed, improper decontamination of surgical instruments, endoscopic devices, respiratory care devices and reusable haemodialysis devices still occurs in many settings, leading to HAIs. This course is based on the WHO manual on decontamination and reprocessing of medical devices for health care facilities, as well as in collaboration with the US CDC.

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-DECON-EN

The health care environment contains a diverse population of microorganisms and can be a reservoir for potential pathogens. If environmental cleaning is not performed correctly, then environmental contamination can contribute to the spread of multidrug-resistant organisms and health care-associated infections. In this course, you will learn the role of an IPC professional in environmental cleaning and understand how cleaning and disinfection prevents contamination of the health care environment.

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-EC-EN

In this course, you will learn about the causes of unsafe injection practices, how to safely give injections, and how to safely dispose of needles and other sharps. You will also learn what to do when needle-stick injuries occur, how to manage potential exposures, and ways to protect yourself, the staff and patients in your facility, and your community.

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-IS-EN

In this introductory course you will learn the essential components of effective IPC programmes, including multimodal strategies for implementation, at the national and facility level, according to scientific evidence and the advice of WHO and international experts.

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-CC-MMIS-EN

In this course, you will learn about how disease-causing microbes, called pathogens, are classified, identified and transmitted. You will be introduced to basic microbiological principles, fundamental laboratory diagnostics and mechanisms by which microbes transmit and cause diseases.

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-MICRO-EN

The target audience for this course is health workers, incident managers, supervisors and administrators who make policies and protocols for their health facilities.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• describe the most common occupational risks to health and safety to which health workers are exposed while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic;
• describe the rights of health workers to decent working conditions;
• describe how to apply measures for protecting their health and safety and actively propose improvements.

ENG: https://openwho.org/courses/COVID-19-occupational-health-and-safety