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  • Introduction


    “We don't know when the next global health threat will come. We don't know where it will come from. We don't know what pathogen it will be, but we are 100 % certain that there will be a next one.“ Dr. Tom Frieden 


    “What worries me the most is that we are going to miss the next emerging disease, that we're suddenly going to find a SARS virus that moves from one part of the planet to another, wiping out people as it moves along.” Dr. Peter Daszak 


  • Week 1: Introduction

    Learning Objectives:

    • Understand the relevance of the specialty in the broader context of the essential services of public health.
    • Recognize the diverse specialties.
    • Recognize how methods and state and district public health professionals work.
    • Historical examples in action (cholera outbreak 1854, smallpox, measles outbreak 2004).

  • Week 2: Toolkit (Human Tools, Data and Technology Tools)

    Learning Objectives:

    • Understand the significant roles of the human and technological elements of health practice.
    • Recognize the diverse professionals within and beyond public health that contribute to the success of surveillance and investigations.
    • Recognize key sources of data. 
    • Recognize ways in which professionals work with the media.
    • Understand how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention serves as a resource for training, technical support, and surveillance and reporting of epidemiological data.

  • Week 3: Descriptive and Analytic Methods, Surveillance

    Learning Objectives:

    • Understand the distinction between descriptive and analytic methods, and their utility in surveillance and outbreak investigations.
    • Know how to interpret data for measures of association and common statistical tests.
    • Recognize the applications and limitations of current public health surveillance practices.
    • Be familiar with federal public health surveillance system.
    • Understand the reciprocal pathways of data exchange through country, state, and federal surveillance efforts.
    • Recognize the major components of surveillance data analysis.

  • Week 4: Public Health’s Role in Investigating Outbreaks

    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.


  • Week 5: Coronaviruses - Basic Fact Sheet

    Learning Objectives:

    • Understand three basic parameters in order to assess the magnitude of the risk posed by this novel coronavirus (Transmission Rate, Case Fatality rate, Determine whether asymptomatic transmission is possible)
    • Coronavirus update

  • Further readings