This is an excellent course covering the SARS-COV-2 virus and COVID-19 illness, typical symptoms, when to seek emergency medial care, requirements for quarantine, isolation and steps involved in contact tracing. It provides good examples of situations a contract tracer may encounter and how to approach them.

While I gave this course five starts for content, I do want to share that listening to the videos was excruciating for me because the speaker talks too slowly for me to stay engaged. I did 90% of the course by reading the transcript and watched the videos when there were examples of tracers speaking to cases.

The course was not difficult for someone with critical thinking skill. The information provided was detailed and precise. I recommend this course to anyone working with people facing COVID or any member of the public. This includes hospital staff, doctors' office staff, social services, etc. Very informative.

I thought this was a great course. I learned how to be a better listener in everyday life as well. I will use the skills learned from this course to listen more effectively, use words to allow the person speaking to know that I understand what they are saying, and I am paying attention. Informative course!

Although it has been a very challenging journey to understand what contact-tracing is, it is very interesting and useful to understand the current situation we are in right now, and how the global communities are trying to cope and resolve the issues that have arise from the paramedic we are experiencing now.

The course was clear, concise, thorough, and well planned. I would recommend it to anyone to get basic information and an understanding about COVID 19. The professor provided clear examples and the different tools like videos, testing, and resources were excellent. I enjoyed learning and taking the course.

This is an excellent introductory course to Contact Tracing. Dr. Gurley was very easy to listen to and she explained in a way that I am able to understand and retain the information. First time taking a course on this platform and it's very user friendly! I'll definitely take more courses offered on Coursera!

this course made me understand a lot more about evolution of the disease, and how to screen my patients, and how to question and talk to people

ability in developing rapport and helping patients, i work with drug addicts and feel this gave me a better way to question and treat them. thank you so much for this.

The instructor was very easy to listen to. Material presented in a well organized manner. Graphics were clean and concise. Lots of up-to-date information. Provided valuable background information for those not currently in the healthcare field. No doubt this course will produce well informed COVID-19 tracers.

Very informative. Easy for me as a medical professional. Would have liked more detailed information about certain situations: ex: how do you obtain translation services, what do you do if someone will not give you any information, how do you find the information to connect cases/contacts to local resources.

Thank you so much for offering this course. This course is interesting, engaging, and the information material provided is clear and easy to understand.

I recently started a new job as a public health nurse, and I found this course really helped me feel more prepared and confident in taking on this new role.

Info was very clear and well laid out. Would recommend to any and all healthcare professionals who are actively involved in dealing with COVID-19 pandemic. Even if they aren't doing the contact tracing the communication strategies are of great value in keeping our patients comfortable in this difficult time.

Nice course but some glitch in some videos other than that course is use ful and super and i had problem on my certificate it is named only my surname there is full by following space but while issuing of certificate there is no full name surname only printed please look this issue and replace my certificate

This course is a really good introduction to Contact Tracing in a pandemic. All the information and scenarios are relevant and concise. The whole course is well designed for COVID-19 contact tracers and the Effective Communication module will also be useful in my other work-roles and in my life outside work.

This course was organized and full of vital information as to how to be a contact tracer. Some of the questions were difficult though because the choices you offered were worded quite similarly. Listening, reading, taking notes, and thinking about each lecture will help tremendously when taking this course.

This course should be taken by everyone as a means to educate and limit the exposure of this and all pathogens that can lead to Pandemics such as the COVID 19. With education we can hopefully save more lives. There could also be less resistance of some people to comply with recommendations by the scientists.

It was great experience to take online classes from Dr.Emily Gurley, I wish I could pursure my education in Jhon Hopkins University. I feel better to know most of the things about COVID-19 and how contact tracing helps to keep community safe and healthy. I am bleesed to take this course. Thank you so much :)

This is a very Informative and structured course.

Helps one understand the importance of contact tracing in such a pandemic.

Helps understand the ethics and protocols that the contact tracer needs to follow while working.

Makes one job ready to work as a contact tracer. I would definitely recommend this course.

The course was very detailed. I enjoyed the different scenarios. I would have liked to see more aggressive contacts (as in real life they would be less likely to agree) but the course was still great. The questions at the end were thought provoking and you didn't just have yes or no questions! Loved it.

A very detailed course in a very simple format with lots of provision to understand everything one needs to know about COVID 19, how to deal with it and the Tracing component. Also, it provides much information on being able to communicate as a Contact Tracer and the tips for good rapport and communication.

Very informative and easy to understand! I am so pleased that my sister recommended the Contact Tracing course to me yesterday!

Dr. Emily Gurley is concise, thorough and has a Syllabus that is well prepared and organized! I am very pleased with her delivery of Lecture materials and quizzes.

Thank you so much!

This was a very valuable course. I was somewhat challenged with the time commitment and distractions resulting from my modified work schedule, but I persevered and made it through. The course was well designed with all needed materials. I will definitely consider additional courses offered in the future.

The material covered was very extensive. I found a few units within the course mildly confusing due to wording, but the video vignettes helped clear some things up for me. Overall, I enjoyed taking this course, and I believe that it will be helpful for everyone looking to gain employment as contact tracers.

The course was excellent! It provided great information for anyone that wants to learn more about COVID-19, not just to do contact tracing. I work in Human Resources and the course is very helpful in understanding COVID-19 and what questions to ask employees when the call out sick due to COVID-19 symptoms.

The test was amazing because of the short stories, videos, tone of the speaker, short modules, and quick questions after every module. Besides learning more about covid19 the course teaches other life skills that are useful in daily conversations and effective for the workplace such as communication skills.