Open AccessOne Year of Pandemic Learning Response: Benefits of Massive Online Delivery of the World Health Organization’s Technical Guidance
Author(s) -
Heini Utunen,
Maria D. Van Kerkhove,
Anna Tokar,
Gillian M. O’Connell,
Gaya Gamhewage,
Ibrahima Socé Fall
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jmir public health and surveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2369-2960
DOI - 10.2196/28945
Subject(s) - pandemic , public health , publication , covid-19 , global health , business , public relations , world wide web , medicine , internet privacy , computer science , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , nursing , advertising , disease , pathology
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first web-based learning course on COVID-19 on January 26, 2020, four days before the director general of the WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern. The WHO is expanding access to web-based learning for COVID-19 through its open-learning platform for health emergencies, OpenWHO. Throughout the pandemic, OpenWHO has continued to publish learning offerings based on the WHO’s emerging evidence-based knowledge for managing the COVID-19 pandemic. This study presents the various findings derived from the analysis of the performance of the OpenWHO platform during the pandemic, along with the core benefits of massive web-based learning formats.