This course presents a selection of public health basics as a framework for COVID-19 pandemic response and prevention. You will explore the goals of public health efforts and how public health happens in the community. Using this framework, you will contextualize and define the conditions for COVID-19 transmission and prevention. Furthering the scope of prevention, you will gain insights into community vaccination efforts with facts and lessons learned from other campaigns. Finally, you will develop basic strategies to combat misinformation and encourage healthy outcomes.