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 +4 more

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Beginner level
No prior experience required
4 weeks to complete
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

Skills you'll gain

  • Category: Investigation
  • Category: Risk Analysis
  • Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
  • Category: Data Visualization Software
  • Category: Geospatial Mapping
  • Category: Infection Control
  • Category: Statistical Visualization
  • Category: Public Health
  • Category: Chronic Diseases
  • Category: Statistics
  • Category: Trend Analysis
  • Category: Infectious Diseases
  • Category: Geospatial Information and Technology
  • Category: GIS Software
  • Category: Health Policy
  • Category: Health Informatics
  • Category: Epidemiology
  • Category: Health Assessment

Tools you'll learn

  • Category: Datamaps
  • Category: Geographic Information Systems

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Specialization - 5 course series

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: Epidemiology
Category: Statistical Visualization
Category: Public Health
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Geographic Information Systems
Category: Estimation
Category: Geospatial Mapping
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Category: Graphing
Category: GIS Software
Category: Health Policy
Category: Community Health
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Geospatial Information and Technology
Category: Datamaps
Data and Health Indicators in Public Health Practice

Data and Health Indicators in Public Health Practice

Course 2, 6 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Epidemiology
Category: Public Health
Category: Data Collection
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Health Assessment
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Health Policy
Category: Descriptive Analytics
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Category: Biostatistics
Surveillance Systems: The Building Blocks

Surveillance Systems: The Building Blocks

Course 3, 6 hours

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: Public Health
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Health Policy
Category: Data Quality
Category: Data Collection
Category: Report Writing
Category: Health Assessment
Category: Community Health
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention

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: Public Health
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Event Monitoring
Category: Trend Analysis
Category: Chronic Diseases
Category: Descriptive Analytics
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Anomaly Detection
Category: Infection Control
Category: Law, Regulation, and Compliance
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Data Collection
Category: Information Privacy
Outbreaks and Epidemics

Outbreaks and Epidemics

Course 5, 5 hours

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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Epidemiology
Category: Investigation
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Infection Control
Category: Public Health
Category: Statistics
Category: Emergency Response
Category: Research Methodologies
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Category: Report Writing
Category: Case Studies
Category: Molecular, Cellular, and Microbiology

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Instructors

Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH
Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course65,431 learners
Keri Althoff, PhD, MPH
Keri Althoff, PhD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course39,186 learners

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