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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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.7

(3,583 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

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: Health Systems
Category: Health Policy
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Surveys
Category: Data Collection
Category: Trend Analysis
Category: Public Health

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Health Systems
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Chronic Diseases
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Anomaly Detection
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Data Collection
Category: Law, Regulation, and Compliance
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Health Care
Category: Public Health

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: Biostatistics
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Probability & Statistics
Category: Investigation
Category: Research Methodologies
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Laboratory Testing
Category: Public Health
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Report Writing
Category: Statistics

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: Biostatistics
Category: Estimation
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Health Policy
Category: Community Health
Category: Geographic Information Systems
Category: Data Collection
Category: Public Health
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Spatial Data Analysis
Outbreaks and Epidemics

Outbreaks and Epidemics

Course 55 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: Descriptive Analytics
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Health Policy
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Data Collection
Category: Health Care
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Public Health

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Instructors

Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course58,189 learners
Keri Althoff, PhD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course35,419 learners

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