Vaccination
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Discover the fascinating world of vaccinations with our free course. Understand the history, types, production, and limitations of vaccines. Learn to define terms, analyze strategies, and explore the availability of effective vaccines. Explore the potential for developing vaccines against specific infectious diseases. Enroll now!
Vaccinations are now considered a part of everyday life, but how do they work? Vaccination is a free course that will help those with a background in biology understand the historical development of vaccination, assess the various types of vaccines used today, examine their production and explore the limitations that are placed on vaccination programmes.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the terms in bold in the course
Use examples from the history of vaccination to illustrate the conduct and outcomes of vaccine strategies to control infectious diseases
Discuss the principle strategies available for developing a vaccine and explain the significance of critical antigens, immunogens and adjuvants in developing effective vaccines
Identify examples of infectious diseases for which effective vaccines are available and some for which they are not. Explain why it has been scientifically difficult or commercially unprofitable to develop vaccines against certain infectious diseases, and why others have been amenable to control by vaccination
Discuss the prospects for developing a vaccine against a named infectious disease, given information on its biology and epidemiology, and on the immune response in human hosts.
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