Epidemiology in Public Health Practice Specialization
People who work in or want to work in the field of public health at the local, regional, and international levels should choose Epidemiology in Public Health Practice specialization. You'll learn how to use the fundamental epidemiologic toolset over the course of five courses taught by professors from the top public health school. These courses will teach you how to measure population health, evaluate interventions, gather and analyze data, and investigate outbreaks and epidemics.
You will gain some fundamental knowledge and abilities from this initial course that will improve your capacity to assess and comprehend the state of your neighborhood. You will learn some useful skills and knowledge in this course that you can hopefully use in your professional activities. Epidemiology is frequently referred to as the foundational field of study in public health. This second course will assist you in defining epidemiology as it relates to public health practice. Epidemiology informs interventions to improve population health and evaluates policies and programs.
Your technical knowledge and skill-building will be aided by this third course as you prepare to deal with various surveillance systems. This course will emphasize system objectives, data reporting, the fundamental surveillance characteristics, and performance evaluation along the way. This course is for you if you build or deploy surveillance systems, want to do so, or use the data obtained through surveillance. Additionally, it's for those who want to learn more about this essential epidemiologic tool and public health practice.
You will expand on the material from the earlier courses in this specialization in order to concentrate on a few very specific skills linked to public health surveillance in this last course. You'll learn how to make the most of surveillance data analysis, paying close attention to how to evaluate time trend data in order to spot temporal anomalies and person, place, and time in relation to surveillance data. Additionally, you'll look at some of the intricate legal issues that influence how surveillance data is used as well as presenting techniques. The topic of non-communicable chronic illness surveillance and how data can be utilized to help preventative efforts will then come into focus. Last but not least, you'll look into specialized surveillance techniques like syndromic surveillance, antibiotic resistance, and event-related surveillance.
Learners will engage in a range of project exercises throughout Epidemiology in Public Health Practice specialization to address real-world issues faced by professional epidemiologists in the course of their job, including reflection, analysis, computation, application, mapping, and assessment.
What you will learn
- Become familiar with the epidemiologic toolset
- Measure the health of populations
- Collect and analyze public health surveillance data
- Investigate disease outbreaks and epidemics
Skill you will gain
- Outbreak investigation
- Public Health Surveillance
- Visualization
- Statistics
- Epidemiology
- Estimation
- Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Statistical Methods
- Data Collection
- Surveillance
- Disease Surveillance
- Data Analysis
Instructors: Aruna Chandran, Keri Althoff, Emily Gurley, and 2 more instructors
Offered by: Johns Hopkins University
Coursera rating: 4.7/5.0, 3.176 ratings
Enroll here: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/professional-epidemiology
