PBHL 5343 Field Epidemiology

This course is designed to provide students with competencies necessary to utilize appropriate epidemiologic tools and methods for development, implementation of surveillance methods in response to various categories of PH need; identify, analyze, and report public health data for emergency preparedness, policy, program development/maintenance, and to identify patterns/trends over time; plan and implement field investigations for determination of potential outbreaks of public health concern. Topics will include, but not be limited to infectious and non-infectious disease health event investigation, forensic epidemiology concerns and methods, Students will consider the role of public health laboratories in field epidemiology and outbreak investigation, as well as environmental impacts on health requiring investigation and tracing. Geographic Information Systems, contact tracing and incident command systems. Identification of needs and appropriate response to health emergencies, with evaluation of programs and control measures will be covered, as will report writing and appropriate communication.

Cross Listed Courses

not applicable

Prerequisite

PBHL 5342 Epidemiology I. This will ensure students have at least some baseline knowledge of epidemiology before enrolling in this course

Corequisite

none