Courses Details

EPID678: Applications Of Epidemiology In Governmental Public Health

  • Graduate level
  • Residential
  • Fall term(s) for residential students;
  • 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
  • Instructor(s): Laura Power (Residential);
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Advisory Prerequisites: EPID 600 or EPID 639 or permission of instructor
  • Description: Students will learn to apply their epidemiological training in real-world public health settings. The course will focus on teaching the most common communicable diseases and emerging issues likely to be faced by epidemiologists in a governmental public health department through lectures, interactive sessions, and applied projects.
  • Learning Objectives: Students should be able to: - Understand role and functions of local, state, and federal public health organizations 1 - Summarize surveillance systems used by public health organizations - Summarize reportable diseases in Michigan and nationally - Understand how to navigate resources for reportable diseases and emerging threats - Describe the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, disease prevention, and control measures for the most common reportable diseases 2 - Understand how to collect data for communicable disease investigations, outbreak investigations, and emerging public health issues 3 - Describe how to import, clean, transform and analyze data to support public health investigations and surveillance - Explain how to effectively communicate findings to an interdisciplinary team - Describe how to translate a general public health question into a SMART applied analysis - Understand how to manage an applied analysis project from concept through delivery
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