Public Health Surveillance Methods

This course prepares students to design, evaluate, and operate a public health surveillance system, analyze and interpret surveillance data, apply surveillance to various settings, diseases, and public health emergencies, understand how surveillance is used to develop public policy, and appreciate the legal and ethical implications of surveillance.  This course focuses on the procedures that are utilized to investigate and track infectious and communicable diseases as well as non-infectious chronic diseases in the United States and developing countries.   

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PH-661