Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Global Settings — Surveillance, Prevention and Control

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Focus on communicable diseases in global settings, spanning individual level of diagnosis & treatment of infectious cases to population-level disease surveillance, prevention & control. Examines relationships between infectious disease & environmental health, including veterinary health. Expands upon topics introduced in MSc-GH core graduate coursework to build towards integrated understanding of infectious disease epidemiology. Three modules: 1) Foundations in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, 2) Disease Surveillance & Prevention, 3) Disease Treatment & Control. Course taught exclusively on-line. Open to graduate students at Duke and Duke Kunshan University only.