Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control

Catalog description

This graduate level course will review infectious disease concepts, examine principles of epidemiology used to characterize infectious diseases, and explore how these concepts and principles are applied to infectious disease prevention and control. Special topics including COVID-19, disease transmission modeling and geospatial epidemiology will be explored. Vaccines as a means to prevent infectious diseases will be covered in detail, including vaccine safety monitoring and vaccine hesitancy in the U.S.