Global Infectious Disease Dynamics: Epidemics, Science, and Society

1 credits · Undergraduate

This seminar introduces students to emerging and re-emerging global infectious diseases through a scientific and epidemiologic lens. Students explore how infectious agents emerge, spread, and persist, using case studies and scenario modeling of contemporary epidemics to examine outbreak dynamics, surveillance, and public health responses. The course emphasizes biological mechanisms, epidemiologic reasoning, and novel interventions, while situating epidemics within their broader social and global contexts.