Measuring the Global Burden of Disease of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

2 credits

Introduces students to the measurement and estimation of trends in the global burden of disease of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS as well as the burden due to co-infection. Students will learn about primary data sources to estimate the epidemiological burden of these diseases, limitations of data sources, and current modeling approaches. Online visualization tool will be used to analyze results from the Global Burden of Disease Study. Credit/no-credit only.