COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Catalog description

Students will learn the primary protocols of contact tracing for COVID-19. Topics will include: a background of epidemiology and understanding of emergency response, an overview of public health terminology, an understanding of COVID-19 (ie. transmission prevention, symptoms, social distancing, quarantine isolation, and the incubation and infectious period.), basic steps of contact tracing, skills and qualities necessary for contact tracers, an overview of health information privacy and security, and the ethics of data collection during an outbreak. Students will gain hands-on skills and training for contact tracing scenarios of someone showing no signs vs. someone showing signs of COVID-19. Students will receive training on documenting calls, working with non-English speaking contacts, working with contacts that have communication impairments, providing follow-up resources, and insights shared from contact tracers in the field.