This specialization is intended for people working or aspiring to work in the field of public health at the local, regional, and national level. Over five courses taught by faculty from the preeminent school of public health, you'll learn to use the core epidemiologic toolset to measure the health of populations, assess interventions, collect and analyze data, and investigate outbreaks and epidemics.
Epidemiology in Public Health Practice Specialization
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Epidemiology in Public Health Practice Specialization
Instructors: Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
(3,616 reviews)
Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 month at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
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
Overview
Skills you'll gain
- Community Health
- Program Evaluation
- Public Health and Disease Prevention
- Infectious Diseases
- Public Health
- Health Systems
- Risk Analysis
- Investigation
- Biostatistics
- Continuous Monitoring
- Health Care
- Health Informatics
- Data Presentation
- Chronic Diseases
- Health Policy
- Data Analysis
- Health Information Management
- Statistics
- Epidemiology
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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: Public Health
Category: Geographic Information Systems
Category: Health Policy
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Data Collection
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Estimation
Category: Community Health
Category: Biostatistics
What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Public Health
Category: Data Collection
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Health Care
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Descriptive Analytics
Category: Health Policy
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: Health Policy
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Category: Health Systems
Category: Surveys
Category: Trend Analysis
Category: Data Collection
Category: Infectious Diseases
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: Epidemiology
Category: Public Health
Category: Chronic Diseases
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Health Systems
Category: Health Care
Category: Law, Regulation, and Compliance
Category: Data Collection
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Anomaly Detection
Category: Data Analysis
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: Statistical Analysis
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Public Health
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Report Writing
Category: Laboratory Testing
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Category: Probability & Statistics
Category: Research Methodologies
Category: Statistics
Category: Biostatistics
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