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What you'll learn

Conduct an outbreak investigation

Create epidemic curves and draw conclusions about the cause of an outbreak from the shape of the curve and median incubation period

Identify disparities and quantify associations between exposures and health outcomes and use findings to inform the public health response

Skills you'll gain

Infectious Diseases

Data Analysis

Public Health

Risk Analysis

Spatial Analysis

Epidemiology

Microsoft Excel

Geographic Information Systems

Health Disparities

Statistical Analysis

Public Health and Disease Prevention

Data Visualization

There are 4 modules in this course

Are you working in public health, but interested in moving into analytical and/or technical roles or curious how health departments investigate outbreaks? If so, this course is for you. After taking this course you be able to define key terms related to outbreaks and describe how surveillance data are collected and analyzed to detect outbreaks. You will be able to create epidemic curves and draw conclusions about transmission and cause from the shape of the curve and median incubation period. You will be able to describe the steps to investigating outbreaks and use that knowledge to guide an outbreak investigation. Using statistical software or excel, you will be able to identify demographic and geographic disparities and key exposures, and to calculate secondary attack rates. You will be able to quantify associations between health outcomes and key exposures using odds ratios and confidence intervals and to interpret and use findings to inform public health responses.

Public Health Surveillance

Methods and Tools to Investigate Outbreaks

Using your New Skills to Support Response to an Outbreak of COVID-19 in an Assisted Living Facility