‘Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics: Are You Ready?’ is open for enrolment now and enables learners to explore the current and emerging threat of global health pandemics and how we can respond to them effectively.
Griffith University’s Infection Prevention and Control Program Director and expert, Dr Peta-Anne Zimmerman leads the global discussion on why we need to look at the current and emerging threat of global health pandemics and how we can all play a part in containing and preventing them in the future.
“Unfortunately people do not automatically see how easily disease can be transmitted and how it is related to the many choices we make regarding our food, health and lifestyle. People often, for example, expect antibiotics to solve common human infections or be used for agricultural purposes, when really the overuse of antibiotics has exacerbated antibiotic effectiveness and we now have issues with antimicrobial resistance.”
“We are aiming to also raise awareness of how the
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