MITx Course: COVID-19 in SIS - 2nd Run (2022)
After a very sucessful 1st Run (2020-2021), with over 1200 enrolled students from over 100 countries around the world, MIT SIS is proud to share the launch of the 2nd Run of our MITx course 11.s952 COVID-19 in Slums & Informal Settlements: Guidelines & Responses.
The course engages learners to analyze how COVID-19 has impacted the world’s most vulnerable populations. It starts with an overview of slums and slum health and then presents the different sets of guidelines that development actors have published to steer COVID-19 response in these geographies. Finally, through partnerships with community-based organizations in Freetown (Sierra Leone), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Masvingo (Zimbabwe), it reviews the responses in self-organized, self-built urban poor communities.
The course is self-paced (15-20 hours total) and allows for a high degree of flexibility. The second run will start in September 2022.
Sign up today! Head to https://mitxonline.mit.edu/ to enroll.
“This course is very important. It shows us how best we can fight COVID-19 in our communities. As residents of urban poor settlements, we celebrate this opportunity to put our voices front and center”