340.766.11
Professional Epidemiologic Methods: Surveillance
Location
East Baltimore
Term
Summer Institute
Department
Epidemiology
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2018 - 2019
Instruction Method
TBD
Start Date
Monday, June 25, 2018
End Date
Friday, June 29, 2018
M, Tu, W, Th, F, 1:30 - 4:50pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
340.601 or 340.721, or professional experience in applied epidemiology
Covers epidemiological methods and analyses for public health surveillance, including novel measurement approaches for “real and near real time” surveillance, syndrome surveillance and surveillance of public health events. Students learn interpretation of analytic strategies including descriptive and inferential epidemiological methods for surveillance data.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe different design in basic surveillance including active and passive surveillance programs
- Identify the essential components of the surveillance cycle
- List the attributes of a functional public health surveillance program
- Identify the methods and use of descriptive epidemiology for surveillance data
- Describe methods for presentation of surveillance data
Enrollment Restriction
Students who have taken 340.763.01 or 340.873.18 may not register for this course