This short course gives you clear, practical guidance for working in a Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak. It also gives you a place to share what you see, learn from colleagues, and support each other during a public health emergency. You learn, you share your epxerience, and you connect your work to the wider response.

Certification

You earn a Certificate of Contribution from The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) that documents what you produced in the course. This certificate opens the door to our full Certificate peer learning programme for humanitarian health. Each module aligns with professional development frameworks for public health, nursing, and medicine. We encourage you to submit the certificate to your employer or your professional body.

Why this course exists

The course does not teach you the official guidance. Other technical trainings do that.

• This course helps you relate your own experience to that guidance, then think through what you can do where you work.
• You will read trusted health guidance, check it against your daily work, and write what you observe in your setting.

What you know and what you are doing can help colleagues, help the community, and strengthen our collective response.

Who this is for

This course is for anyone working for health in a community affected by an outbreak.

This may include nurses, doctors, lab staff, community health workers, burial teams, contact tracers, risk communication staff, Red Cross and Red Crescent staff, local organisations, and managers.

You do not need a formal health title or qualification to take part.

If your work supports people to prepare, respond to, or recover from a Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, this course is for you.

Three reasons to make time for this

1. You join a network responding to the same emergency. The Primer connects you with peers who are responding to Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, so we can learn together.
2. You work on what is in front of you. Each activity asks you to connect the guidance to your own site, team, patients, and community.
3. You learn by combining experiential and technical knowledge . You write, review peer work, and receive peer feedback, so real experience becomes shared knowledge.

Who developed this course?

This course was developed by The Geneva Learning Foundation with the TGLF Scholar networks in DRC and Uganda. TGLF Scholars are health and humanitarian leaders who support and learn from each other to better serve their communities. The course draws on trusted health guidance referenced in the course, including WHO guidance on infection prevention and control, WHO and IFRC guidance on safe and dignified burial, WHO guidance on supportive care for Ebola virus disease, and WHO guidance on risk communication and community engagement.