- Epidemiology in Crisis Management

Catalog description

This course provides students with an examination of man-made and technological disasters, the various public health related crises which emanate from these disasters and the interaction of public health professionals and other responding agencies in the mitigation of these crises. Disasters are also dissected in terms of response through NIMS, a federal framework for disaster response. The course also explores the determination of risk, in terms of disasters and the communication of risk to various populations.