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Transmissible Briefs are light educational updates on current issues in disease prevention and control.
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2018-06-23 | In this Transmissible Brief, we explore the function and background of Dharma.ai, a company promoting a social impact database. We interview Sam Scarpino on the use of this platform. For those who want to see an online demo of the platform, click here. |
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2018-01-26 | The Dutch educational game ‘Influencing Flu’ is designed and developed by Transmissible and Jade Owls Studios. On request of Utrecht University, this game was created as part of the curriculum innovation of the Medical School. The game is a cross over ... |
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2017-11-20 | This brief is to honor the 108th birthday of Karel Raska, European Epidemiology Giant |
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2017-04-25 | This time, Transmissible Briefs reviews a special edition of the Luke and Lucy comic books series. It aims to teach children (and their parents) that antibiotics should not be taken lightly, and certainly not for common viral infections. But Luke and L... |
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2017-04-22 | On 22 April 2017, over 500 cities in 41 countries organized marches for science. A global effort to raise awareness about the importance of science in our daily lives, and the difference between facts, evidence and opinions. This is a brief video impre... |
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2017-04-10 | This podcast reviews a seriously fun card battle game; ‘Defenders of Soma’, designed and developed by Nerdcore Medical. The game can be played solo and between two opposing players. Background knowledge of public health or microbiology is not essential... |
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2017-03-26 | This podcast reviews an educational board game; ‘The Disease Detectives’, designed and developed by Florian Burckhardt and Esther Kissling, two epidemiologist and EPIET Graduates. The game can be played with 2 – 4 players. Background knowledge of publi... |
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2017-03-14 | This podcast describes the Comic book series by Cimaza, focussing on one of the most important public health topics: Vaccines and Vaccine Preventable Viruses. |
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2017-03-03 | On 28 February, a list of twelve very resistant bacterial pathogens was published to initiate a world wide coordinated race for developing new treatments. The World Health Organisation and other international health organisations are highly concerned t... |
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2017-02-11 | The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published a new app for mobile devices on 10 February. The app brings all Health Threat Reports of the Centre within reach of the mobile device user, in one convenient app. In this Transmiss... |
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