Health and Security (JPM998)
Section outline
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“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
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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).
- Understand the relevance of the specialty in the broader context of the essential services of public health.
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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.
- Understand the significant roles of the human and technological elements of health practice.
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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.
- Understand the distinction between descriptive and analytic methods, and their utility in surveillance and outbreak investigations.
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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.
- Be able to distinguish disaster, environmental, and forensic epidemiology specialties.
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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