Eradicating Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

Harvard FAS

This course is a survey to introduce core concepts and tools of disease eradication. We will discuss the current tools (or lack of tools), the evidence for their effective use, and their successes and failures, and we will discuss the policies and programs required to effectively use these tools for infectious disease control and eradication. In Session 1-6, we will focus on malaria as a context for introducing the many aspects of disease eradication. From Session 7-13, each session will…