Infectious Diseases and Public Health Practice

Catalog description

This is an introduction to the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases. The course is taught from the perspective of public health communicable disease containment: detection, investigation, control, and prevention of infectious diseases in communities. The course emphasizes core concepts in infectious disease transmission mechanisms, dynamics, and containment; evidence- based approaches to designing and implementing infectious disease control and prevention measures, and an overview of epidemiologic methods for investigating infectious disease transmission and containment.