Infectious Disease Transmission Models for Decision-Makers
Completed by Kristine Hope Kowalski
August 11, 2025
3 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Review the basics of infections disease epidemiology and transmission and key components of infectious disease models
Present questions that can be answered by infectious disease transmission models and types of models used to answer each type of question
Describe how to assess whether or not a model is “good” or useful for informing policy
Identify the most important considerations for making decisions based on infectious disease transmission models
Skills you will gain
- Category: Health Policy
- Category: Decision Intelligence
- Category: Vulnerability
- Category: Predictive Modeling
- Category: Decision Support Systems
- Category: Infection Control
- Category: Biostatistics
- Category: Public Health
- Category: Mathematical Modeling
- Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
- Category: Policy Analysis
- Category: Case Studies
