Fundamentals of Public Health, Epidemiology and Laboratory Surveillance.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online). 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted to students enrolled in the medical laboratory sciences graduate program. Guided study introducing the mission and essential services of public health; epidemiological concepts, methods and goals; application, evaluation and individual and community considerations of public health interventions; the use of laboratory information management systems and informatics; and the role of the public health laboratory, including surveillance activities.