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One year of pandemic learning response: Benefits of massive online delivery of WHO’s technical guidance
Heini Utunen;
Maria D Van Kerkhove;
Anna Tokar;
Gillian O'Connell;
Gaya M Gamhewage;
Ibrahima Socé Fall
ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first online learning course on COVID-19 on 26 January 2020, four days before the Director General of WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Since then, followed steadily with learning offerings to frontline workers and decision makers using WHO’s emerging evidence-based knowledge for managing the pandemic. The course “Introduction to COVID-19” is hosted on WHO Health Emergencies learning platform OpenWHO.org and the Pan American Health Organization’s Virtual Campus platform registering more than 1.1 million enrolments across 37 language versions with 12 more languages in current production. As new evidence emerges, the course content is continuously updated to include the latest scientific knowledge and align with WHO’s latest technical guidance.
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Utunen H, Van Kerkhove MD, Tokar A, O'Connell G, Gamhewage GM, Fall IS
One Year of Pandemic Learning Response: Benefits of Massive Online Delivery of the World Health Organization’s Technical Guidance