Public Health: Learn The Principles Of Epidemiology

Learn the basics of epidemiology to solve disease outbreak scenarios from start to finish!

What you'll learn
Define and understand the science of epidemiology and its different types
Understand risk factors and how they affect disease susceptibility
The process of data collection, analysis, and interpretation of public health data
The types of control and prevention methods; gauging necessity of intervention
Common diseases and their etiology (cause)
Analyze simulated and real outbreak scenarios
The epidemiological triads
How to interpret epidemiological graphs and figures
How to generate and test hypotheses; how to establish causality
Analytical epidemiology with rates and ratios
Biases and errors
Requirements
No public health or science experience needed. This course is targeted towards the most beginner audience.
Description
Learners will get a strong base of epidemiologic principles, understand the spread of disease, understand what epidemiology truly is, understand the basis of public health science, and use their knowledge to analyze disease outbreak scenarios. Each lecture is structured in an easily-understandable package similar to a Khan Academy course.  If any help is needed, I can be contacted through email free of charge. This course consists of three main sections, each of which lays down the foundation of your epidemiological journey. The first introduces you to epidemiology as as science, and brings in aspects of disease spread that are essential to be familiar with in order to investigate outbreaks. Next, the principles of disease surveillance are introduced, where the uses, types, and steps of effective disease surveillance are detailed. Most importantly, there is a section dedicated to the actual investigation of a disease outbreak, following the CDC-Mandated 13 Step process. Each lecture provides you with examples, along with external resources and quizzes in order to solidify your engagement to the course. This course is targeted at complete novices and provides the most comprehensive start-to-finish course on epidemiology and outbreak investigation on the market. The course is packed with quizzes, external resources, articles, vocabulary, and real-world examples of public health scenarios! Go from complete beginner to disease outbreak detective!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Epidemiology and Diseases

Lecture 1 What is Epidemiology?

Lecture 2 Types of Epidemiology and the Epidemiological Triads

Lecture 3 The Natural History and Spectrum of Disease

Lecture 4 The Chain of Infection

Lecture 5 Introduction to Outbreak Investigation

Section 2: Public Health Surveillance

Lecture 6 What is Surveillance?

Lecture 7 The Basic Steps of Surveillance

Lecture 8 The Main Types of Surveillance

Section 3: Outbreak Investigation

Lecture 9 Steps to Outbreak Investigation - What is an Outbreak?

Lecture 10 Definition and Establishing the Existence of an Outbreak (Pt 2)

Lecture 11 Developing a Case Definition

Lecture 12 Classifying Cases using a Case Definition

Lecture 13 Analyzing Public Health Figures

Lecture 14 Developing a Hypothesis

Lecture 15 Evaluating Hypothesis

Lecture 16 Types of Studies and When to Use them

Lecture 17 Calculations to Analyze Correlation and Evaluating these Calculations

Lecture 18 Evaluating our Measures of Correlation

Lecture 19 Reevaluating our Hypothesis and Reconciling with Environmental Data

Lecture 20 Drawing Conclusions - What do we do now?

Lecture 21 Outbreak Investigation Wrap-up

This course is for people wanting to learn the basics of epidemiology and outbreak investigation, and using that to achieve a strong understanding of the science. Learners will go from beginners to being able to fully go through an outbreak investigation by the end of the course.