Fall 2024 Epidemiology P8469 section D01

Epidemiology of Malaria

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MALARIA

Call Number 15687
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Awash Teklehaimanot
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

Malaria imposes a profound burden on public health and inhibits economic growth. It is distributed over 90 countries accounting for an annual estimate of 400 million cases and over one million deaths, most of them in children. Pregnant women are more vulnerable to malaria, resulting in infection, miscarriages, severe anemia, maternal mortality and low birth weight. Low birth weight poses the greatest risk for neonatal death. The disease also affects non-immune immigrants, refugees and displaced populations during their movement from non-endemic to endemic areas. Resistance to anti-malarial drugs and insecticides by the Plasmodium human parasites and Anopheles vector mosquitoes respectively is widespread. This course examines the ecological and epidemiological characteristics of malaria, transmission dynamics, economic costs of malaria, available intervention strategies and the global challenge of its control.

Web Site Vergil
Department Epidemiology
Enrollment 24 students (30 max) as of 9:05AM Thursday, January 2, 2025
Subject Epidemiology
Number P8469
Section D01
Division School of Public Health
Open To GSAS, Public Health
Section key 20243EPID8469PD01