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
