Emerging Health Threats: Risks and Surveillance

Catalog description

This course will focus on the risk and surveillance of infectious diseases as part of an overall disaster preparedness and emergency response operations plan both nationally and internationally. Students will understand various types of public health interventions to address the rapid spread of disease. Case studies will be used to illustrate emergency management approaches to threats from infectious diseases and other strategies deployed to understand and control disease emergence and spread. Principles of ethical practice, treatment of infectious population, and quarantine will also be examined.