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Epidemiology in Public Health Practice

Keri Althoff, Stefan Baral, MD, MPH, MBA, FRCPC, Keri Althoff, PhD, MPH, Justin Lessler, PhD, Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH, Emily Gurley, PhD, Justin Lessler, PhD, MS, and Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH

This specialization is intended for people working or aspiring to work in the field of public health at the local, regional, and national level. Over five courses taught by faculty from the preeminent school of public health, you'll learn to use the core epidemiologic toolset to measure the health of populations, assess interventions, collect and analyze data, and investigate outbreaks and epidemics.

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Five courses

Essential Epidemiologic Tools for Public Health Practice

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In order to improve population health, we must understand the burden of health problems and the effectiveness of interventions. This course provides essential epidemiologic tools to describe and understand community health. These tools are useful for public health practitioners, including data scientists, program officials, agency leaders, and policymakers.

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Data and Health Indicators in Public Health Practice

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Epidemiology is the cornerstone science in public health. It uses study design and analyses to identify causes in an outbreak situation, guides interventions to improve population health, and evaluates programs and policies.

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Surveillance Systems: The Building Blocks

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Epidemiology is the cornerstone science of public health, and public health surveillance is a cornerstone of epidemiology. This course will help you build your technical awareness and skills for working with a variety of surveillance systems.

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Surveillance Systems: Analysis, Dissemination, and Special Systems

In this course, we'll focus on specific skills for public health surveillance. We'll learn to analyze surveillance data, interpret time trend data, and identify person, place, and time patterns. We'll also explore strategies for presenting surveillance data and the legal elements that affect its use. Finally, we'll cover special surveillance systems like syndromic surveillance and antimicrobial resistance.

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Outbreaks and Epidemics

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Professional epidemiologists investigate outbreaks and epidemics. This course introduces the essentials of investigation, identifying pathogens, reporting, and responding. You'll learn how to ask precise epidemiologic questions and apply epidemiologic tools to uncover the answers. You'll also learn about basic epidemic dynamics and the reasons why they grow, recede, and eventually go away.

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Learning objectives

Become familiar with the epidemiologic toolset
Measure the health of populations

Collect and analyze public health surveillance data
Investigate disease outbreaks and epidemics

Become familiar with the epidemiologic toolset
Measure the health of populations
Collect and analyze public health surveillance data
Investigate disease outbreaks and epidemics

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Time

28 hours

Level

Introductory

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Coursera

Institution

Johns Hopkins University

Instructors

Keri Althoff

Stefan Baral, MD, MPH, MBA, FRCPC

Keri Althoff, PhD, MPH

Justin Lessler, PhD

Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH

Emily Gurley, PhD

Justin Lessler, PhD, MS

Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH

Level

Introductory

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