5 credits
This course covers principles and methods of communicable disease epidemiology. Topics include history of communicable disease control, infectious disease definitions and terminology, the epidemiologic triad, dynamics of transmission, laboratory diagnosis, outbreak investigations, disease surveillance, immunity, vaccines, and pandemics. Case studies are used to investigate vaccine-preventable diseases, respiratory diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, zoonotic diseases, diarrheal diseases, and antibiotic resistant infections.