Contact Tracing Course for Public Health Professionals, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice

Course Description

Help your public health agency expand their contact tracing efforts and slow the spread of COVID-19. Public health professionals, who might not have experience with contact tracing, can take this course to learn the basics and to be successful in reaching out to community members to save lives.

The course can complement existing disease surveillance systems, programs, and trainings your organization is already using to help monitor the public’s health. It also provides an interactive learning experience through interview skill-building videos, quizzes, and an exercise to practice key decision-making during a contact interview.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define contact tracing.
• Describe the important role contact tracers have in protecting the public.
• Identify criteria that determine whether someone is a potential contact.
• Identify the key components of a successful contact tracing interview.
• Apply principles of successful contact tracing interviews to a mock interview scenario.
• Conduct contact tracing interviews with professionalism and sensitivity.

Register 

• The course is free and lasts approximately 1.5 hours 
• Click here to register!