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About the Course

Compartmental modelling is a cornerstone of mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and this course will introduce some of the basic concepts in building compartmental models, including how to interpret and represent rates, durations and proportions. You'll learn to place the mathematics to one side and concentrate on gaining intuition into the behaviour of a simple epidemic, and be introduced to further basic concepts of infectious disease epidemiology, such as the basic reproduction number (R0) and its implications for infectious disease dynamics. To express the mathematical underpinnings of the basic drivers that you study, you'll use the simple SIR model, which, in turn, will help you examine different scenarios for reproduction numbers. Susceptibility to infection is the fuel for an infectious disease, so understanding the dynamics of susceptibility can offer important insights into epidemic dynamics, as well as priorities for control....

Top reviews

MS

Aug 16, 2020

This is an excellent course. It covers a lot of material, but is very well organized. Gives a great introduction to infectious disease modeling that is intuitive and easy to follow.

MT

Aug 31, 2020

Nice course, good balance of videos and independent work. I have a question! What coding language is used in the etivities? Please help - no replies on the forums sadly! Thanks

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By Hilary M

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Jun 10, 2022

Great course if you want to start learning about the epidemiology of infectious diseases and how to code SIR models in R. Good job!!!

By segundo f s a

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Oct 8, 2023

Un curso donde se aprende la dinamica del modelo SIR a un nivel profundo de forma entretenida. Muchas gracias a los instructores

By Belaynew W T

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May 29, 2020

The instructors make the course really live. I have got the skills I was looking for and I am confident to go about doing mine!

By Caroline M

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Jul 22, 2022

I have learnt so much! Everything was very well explained .I am extremely grateful for everyone who put this course together.

By Jeevan T

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Jun 14, 2021

It is very conceptual and makes us confident in making complex models with various competing hazards in the SIR framework.

By Dr. A M

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Jun 26, 2020

This is a wonderful course it helped me a lot in understanding basic and advance concepts of infectious disease modeling.

By berhe e

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Jan 15, 2023

Fundamental towards understanding the infectious disease epidemiology and practical application of mathematical models

By Nils K

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Jun 10, 2020

Good introduction into the field. Programming exercises are useful. Videos are well made and short and to the point.

By Abrham W

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Nov 15, 2022

Simply it is a very informative and well-organized course! One of the best courses that I ever attended online.

By Deleted A

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Jun 9, 2020

A truly wonderful course that allows the understanding of disease transmission through mathematical tools

By Manuel H R

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May 7, 2022

The course is excellent. The etivitys very motivating and interesting and easy to understand code in R

By Abdul R

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Mar 2, 2023

I am thankful to Imperial College London for allowing me to learn infectious Disease Modeling.

By Su M H

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Jul 7, 2020

Really good one! I have learned better than before joining the course on this topic

By Raffy M

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Mar 10, 2021

Very helpful and rich in content and parallel learning of R and SIR became easy.

By gabriel a c

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Jun 24, 2020

excellent course for beginners. Already told 5 people about and will tell more.

By Luong V

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Oct 2, 2022

Great content, Great tutors, completely suitable for a beginner in the field.

By Kaveh K M

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Dec 9, 2021

Very interesting viewpoints on mathematical modelling of infectious disease.

By Ioannis T

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Aug 24, 2020

Great course. Direct to the point and analytic enough to learn all details.

By Megan H

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Jul 8, 2022

This is a great course to learn about the SIR model. Highly recommed it.

By Chen S

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Feb 13, 2021

Brilliant! I appreciate this opportunity to learn it, thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks!

By Giovanni G

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Sep 11, 2020

Amazing, I'd learned all he basics with this course, thank you Coursera

By Radha K M

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Jun 22, 2020

Its great course in mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease......

By Rupok C

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Sep 6, 2020

Great intuitive experience in learning infectious disease dynamics

By Angelo A P L

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Aug 1, 2020

Excellent course, good information and excellent instructors.

By Kamilia H

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Sep 13, 2023

clear explanation, moderately challenging activities