Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH does a phenomenal job breaking the subject down for both knowledge and interpretation. I am looking forward to having enough of a basis to help serve in my community. The course is easy to follow and reinforces important point of the course/lecture. The use of diagrams are well placed and help in illustrating important points.

Great course. More time on the iso / quarantine calculations would be good because I think they may be tricky, especially when contacts are living with cases. More info on the kinds of resources that people like Jacob might be able to access to help him isolate safely without any financial burden would be good too.

Thanks for making this available!

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I am truly enjoying this course! It is teaching me about CoV-19 and how to stop the replication of this horrible disease! I am ready to start helping the community out by narrowing down the number of people who get infected. Thank you to all the essentials workers who are putting themselves at risk everyday including my husband. God bless you all!

This course had exceptional clarity and organization. I appreciated how the course was straight-forward and easy to follow, especially as someone who is completely new to contact tracing. The examples were also helpful. Practice quizzes helped to prepare for final assessment and actively engaged the newly acquired knowledge. Overall, excellent course!

Este curso mudou minha visão de como ser melhor no relacionamento com as pessoas. Aprendi a escutá-las melhor e a falar no momento oportuno. Uma lição de vida no trato uns com outros. Ensinou-me que é necessário ouvir para entender comportamentos e atitudes, manter bons relacionamentos e compreender nosso semelhante. Muito obrigada pela oportunidade.

Extremely well put together. Addresses all types of learning styles. Clear to understand and extremely informative. Thank you!

The only feedback I would offer is........under the level of difficulty you have easy and difficult but nothing inbetween, I never found the course content difficult of easy but somewhere inbetween. Fabulous course. Thank you!

I am very happy to have the opportunity to be able to folow this excellent course as a Dutch Citizen. It really helps me to understand the complexicity of Contact Tracing and the course convinces me of the value-add of contact tracing in order to have our normal society back again based on Low tech human efforts to fight this SARS-CoV-2 virus.

This was an excellent course. In it, I gained a thorough understanding of the Corona Virus-2, COVID-19, and the basics of contact tracing. The information was presented clearly and in an excellent format. The videos and slides were also excellent. After completing the course, I have the tools to perform contact tracing. Thank you to professor Gurley.

This was a very informative course. I learned a lot about Covid-19 or SARS-COV-2. Contact tracing is a public health intervention that is used every day to stop disease transmission. Contact tracings is vital to crushing the virus in America and getting back on track. Thank you for the free course. I will be completing more courses in the future.

I can think of no better class to take given the current situations. I was especially smitten with the reasons people would make it difficult to help with tracing. That's an area where science meets ideology that could use more answers. The greater good isn't in the cards for some and some feel they have the blessing of officials to act ignorant.

As a 15 year social worker who has held many blue collar & a few white collar jobs, I was quite impressed at how thorough this training was! I have NEVER felt so prepared & educated for a new position in my life! The video scenarios were extremely helpful. The detail regarding the intricacies of what I will be dealing with are invaluable. Great job!

i have learned all the information for contact tracing has some complex issues but with active listening, building rapport, effective communication, autonomy, public good confidentiality, private different types of questions to ask. the terms and definitions were all interesting and gave me much better understanding of this covid 19 contact tracing.

It has been said that to meet the challenge of the Covid 19 pandemic, the United States will need an "Army of contact tracers." I took the class to learn the skills necessary to join the effort. However, I am disappointed that there is no directory of health agencies in need of these skills.

If there is to be an army, where is the recruiting office?

This was an easy to use, easy to understand, and easy to complete course! I feel like I have been keeping my eye on the research and news about COVID-19 for months but I know a lot more about the disease and It's control after taking this course. I am ready and willing to assist our health department If they require volunteers for contact tracing!

Excellent lectures of MS.EMILY GURLEY and each and every area make Too good and helpful to know about pandemic symptoms abd signs and too more about SARS-COV-2 from lectures got most of the unknown information and now i can trace contacts of this pandemic now itself i can help the health department by my experience from covid 19 contact tracing8

The instructor, Ms. Emily, was really good in conveying information about the current pandemic and contact tracing. The scenarios presented were pretty informative because the actors were very good, especially the actor for Larry. Even if you are not planning to become a contact tracer, this course is still informative to learn more about the virus.

I found the course to be easy to follow with the information building on itself in a logical process. The phone call examples were very helpful, especially since this was an online course and we didn't have the opportunity to practice the applications in class. This was my first online class and I found it to be much better than expected. Well done!

I am 64 an a health care professional (NP) I never assume it is OK to call someone by their first name until they have told me it is. I know things have changed but if we are calling elderly people (ie older than me) many of them are offended if they are called by their first name.

Otherwise I thought this was an excellent and informative course.

The course was extremely informative, I learned a great deal of the do's and don't's regarding communication. I learned was most interested with the active listening section of the course. I feel if others could see this course perhaps they would take the pandemic a lot more seriously. I personally will be recommending this course to people I know.

The information imparted by this online coursework is immeasureable and timely. Contact tracing is a skill which requires patience, empathy and persevereance. It requires some amount of flexibility and tweaking for low resource countries especially the technology aspect but I'm sure they will find ways to make it work. Thank you for this course.

This was a great course. As a medical interpreter student, I learned and acquired new techniques and vocabulary. The information and knowledge learned in this course will forward my skills in healthcare. The videos and simulations are great tools and examples to help understand the various ways how interviews and follow-up with cases and contacts .

I believe everyone on the planet needs this course, whether you want to be a contact tracer or not. Accurate information regarding COVID-19 in scanty; knowing how to one is identified as a case or a contact is important information. This should be taught in public health education classes and all healthcare specialties. Thank you for the course.

A useful course even for those who are not directly involved in contact tracing. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the course went beyond the specific contract tracing skills, and included things like background information on the virus, the legal and ethical aspects of dealing with information, and the importance of communication and rapport.

The course provided the information that was needed in order for me to become a Contact Tracer. I liked that it was self-paced and included quizzes at the end of each module. The examples of role-playing that were included provided real-life scenarios with clarity and understanding. It gave me the confidence to know that I can carry out this task.

Covid - 19 Contact Tracing course is informative, valuable and essential for contact tracing jobs. I find the course easy to follow and learn some very important information about the disease, also how to tackle all the pertinent information. Dr. Gurley demonstrated great many techniques which be beneficial tools for any contact tracer. Thank you.