Public Health Surveillance

Catalog description

Public health surveillance, through collecting and monitoring public health related data as they appear in the real world, plays an important role to ensure public health. This course provides an overview of the principles and practice of public health surveillance and will include design, data collection, and data analysis of the public health surveillance system in general. The skills that students learn from this course will help them better understand and analyze public health issues. Using existing public health surveillance data such as NHANES, NHIS, BRFSS, and SEER, this course provides hands-on experience with analyzing public health surveillance data.