Section outline

  • Learning Objectives:

    • Be able to distinguish disaster, environmental, and forensic epidemiology specialties.
    • Appreciate how the context of law, media, business, and communities impacts practice.
    • Understand public health’s role in investigating natural outbreaks of disease and that unusual findings in an investigation. 
    • Understand the goals of public health and law enforcement officials and how these goals influence investigations.
    • Understand differences between a law enforcement investigation and a public health investigation.