This course is a comprehensive study on public health surveillance and includes discussions of the history and planning considerations, data sources and collection, analysis and interpretation, communication, evaluation, ethical and legal issues, state and local issues, and issues in developing countries as concerns public health surveillance
 

This basic two-week course in epidemiology is directed at public health professionals and includes discussions of applied epidemiology and biostatistics, public health surveillance, field investigations, hands-on computer training using Epi-Info, and selected prevalent diseases.  Epidemiologic case studies are worked on in the classroom
 

This 4-day course will provide hands-on experience programming Epi Info 7 at the beginning to intermediate / advanced level to develop public health data systems.  Modules include Makeview, Enter, basic Checkcoding, and basic Analysis and Epi map.  Intermediate / Advanced level covers Data managemetn, Advanced Analysis, Epi Map and Report modules.
 

The course includes a review of the fundamentals of descriptive epidemiology and biostatistics, measures of association, normal and binomial distributions, confounding, statistical tests, stratification, logistic regression, models, and computers as used in epidemiology.  A prerequisite is a basic course in epidemiology.
 

Contact person:  Pia Valeriano, MBA

Phone:(404)727-3485; Fax:(404)727-4590; Email:pvaleri@emory.edu

Website: http://web1.sph.emory.edu/epicourses/