Johns Hopkins University
Epidemiology in Public Health Practice Specialization
Johns Hopkins University

Epidemiology in Public Health Practice Specialization

Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH
Keri Althoff, PhD, MPH
Justin Lessler, PhD, MS

Instructors: Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH

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4.7

(3,505 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Become familiar with the epidemiologic toolset

  • Measure the health of populations

  • Collect and analyze public health surveillance data

  • Investigate disease outbreaks and epidemics

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Specialization - 5 course series

Essential Epidemiologic Tools for Public Health Practice

Course 14 hours4.7 (2,976 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Be conversant in public health history, services, governance, and workforce.

  • Perform numeric estimates to assess public health problems and evaluate the burden of a condition in a population

  • Use data visualization as an epidemiological tool to describe risk factors

  • Apply basic mapping skills and a tool for epidemiologic descion-making

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Collection
Category: Epidemiology
Category: surveillance
Category: Disease Surveillance

Data and Health Indicators in Public Health Practice

Course 26 hours4.7 (1,194 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Collection
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Disease Surveillance

Surveillance Systems: The Building Blocks

Course 35 hours4.8 (478 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Discuss the role of surveillance within the broader fields of epidemiology and public health

  • Assign objectives to define surveillance cases

  • Use public health surveillance reporting systems

  • Compare and contrast surveillance systems using system attributes

Skills you'll gain

Category: Statistics
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Outbreak investigation
Category: Public Health

What you'll learn

  • Analyze and interpret epidemiologic surveillance data

  • Present surveillance data in compliance with legal reporting requirements

  • Apply epidmiologic surveillance principles to non-communicable chronic diseases

  • Differentiate among indicator-based, event-based, and event-related surveillance systems

Skills you'll gain

Category: Estimation
Category: Geographic Information System (GIS)
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: visualization

Outbreaks and Epidemics

Course 55 hours4.8 (739 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Apply methods to weigh evidence and calculate measures

  • Discuss outbreaks and the key epidemiologic tools used during investigation

  • Apply basic epidemic dynamics to the analysis of outbreaks

Instructors

Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course55,513 learners
Keri Althoff, PhD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course33,981 learners

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