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Pandemic Preparedness & Response Initiative

The Brown School is pleased to present our Foundations of Pandemic Preparedness & Response program. This five-part, 20-hour program provides a self-paced, online tool kit to help public health and social service professionals respond, mitigate, and prevent infectious disease outbreaks, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic. The course is a foundational experience designed to build basic understanding and skills in:

  • Epidemiology
  • Surveillance & Response
  • Communications
  • Mitigation & Recovery
  • Public Health & Social Policy

The course was developed in consultation with practitioners in the field and Brown School experts in public health, social work, and social policy.

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A Message from our Dean

Brown School Dean Mary McKay provides an overview of the Foundations of Pandemic Preparedness & Response program and invites you to join us.


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Upon completion of the full program, participants will be able to:

-Understand and apply basic epidemiology concepts and methods to describe infectious disease pandemic trends. 

-Apply a transdisciplinary lens to pandemic surveillance, including an understanding of biology (immunology/pathology, testing, etc) and epidemiology (data and interpretation of evolving evidence.

-Analyze and compare risk factors with a view towards preventing and controlling infections.

-Develop public health risk communication approaches appropriate for diverse audiences. Design prevention, response, and recovery. 

-Develop interventions with attention to racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities. 

-Apply transdisciplinary strategies for community mitigation, policy development and advocacy.

You may register for modules individually ($25/ea), or for the most cohesive experience and best price, we encourage you to enroll in the full program ($100). Individuals who wish documentation of self-study social work CEUs* or CPH units must satisfactorily complete a quiz or other assignment associated with each module. Successful completion of all 5 modules will result in a Certificate in Foundations of Pandemic Preparedness & Response.  Participants have 6 months of the date of registration to complete the program.

Join the full program or just those modules of interest to you!

REGISTER - FULL PROGRAM (best price)- self-study 20 CEUs/CPH units, inclusive of 3 units of cultural competency, or

  • Module 1 - Epidemiology - 5.5 CEUs/CPH units
  • Module 2 - Surveillance & Response - 5 CEUs/CPH units
  • Module 3 - Communications - 3.5 CEUs/CPH units, inclusive of 1 unit of cultural competency
  • Module 4 - Mitigation & Recovery - 5.25 CEUs/CPH units, inclusive of 2 units of cultural competency
  • Module 5 - Public Health & Social Policy - 2.75 CEUs/CPH units

Questions? Please contact us at profdev@brownschool.wustl.edu

*The Brown School offers accredited programs in social work and public health and is an approved provider of social work CEUs in Missouri and Illinois; this program is eligible for self-study units. Mental health licenseholders from other disciplines and jurisdictions should consult their licensing body about our program's eligibility for your licensure renewal.

Contributing Instructors


Rebeccah L. Bennett, MPP
Founder and Principal
Emerging Wisdom LLC & InPower

Angela Brown, MPH
CEO, Regional Health Commision

Charlene Caburnay, PhD
Research Assistant Professor

Christine Ekenga, PhD
Assistant Professor

Dan Ferris, MPA
Assistant Dean for Policy Initiatives
Assistant Professor of Practice

Janet Gillow, MSW
Director of Professional Development Programs

Jenni Harpring, MSW, MA
Assistant Dean, Office of Field Education
Teaching Professor

Angela Hobson, PhD
Assistant Dean for Public Health
Senior Lecturer

Lora Iannotti, PhD
Associate Professor

Sean Joe, PhD
Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development
Principal Investigator, Race and Opportunity Lab

Kimberly Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor

Ragini Maddipati, MPH
Lecturer

Heidi B. Miller, MD
Medical Director, Regional Health Commission

Sarah Moreland-Russell, PhD
Assistant Professor of Practice

Jason Purnell, PhD
Associate Professor
Vice President of Community Health Improvement, BJC HealthCare

Vetta Sanders-Thompson, PhD
E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity

Atia Thurman, MSW
Associate Director, Clark-Fox Policy Institute
Manager of Brown School Initiatives

Cynthia Williams, MSW
Assistant Dean of Community Partnerships

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