Infectious Disease Epidemiology

3.0 credits

This course will review the epidemiology of infectious diseases of national and international importance, including acute respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis, influenza, sexually transmitted diseases, parasitic diseases, vector-borne diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, and antibiotic resistance. Students will learn how to assess the public health implications of specific pathogens in the United States and worldwide. Emphasis will be on epidemiologic methods for disease surveillance, outbreak investigations, case-control studies, cohort studies, molecular epidemiology, dynamics of transmission, impact of host immunity, and assessment of various control methods including vaccinations.