Description: This course will cover the epidemiology of viral diseases and their impact on human health. Students will learn how vaccines and other public health interventions for infectious diseases are developed, tested, and implemented.
Learning Objectives: Course Objectives will be to:
- Introduce the history and evolution of vaccinology
- Introduce the process and critical steps for new vaccine and antiviral discovery, development, licensure, and safety monitoring.
- Introduce the intersection between viruses and human immune systems and their impact human health.
- Demonstrate the integration of viral disease transmission into planning of vaccine and public health interventions.
- Demonstrate how virus characteristics and genetic diversity impact human disease and intervention effectiveness.
- Detail the epidemiologic methods and study designs central to understanding viral transmission and interventions.
Description: Investigation of a selected problem planned and carried out by each student. Pertinent literature, investigational approaches, and progress in the investigations are discussed in seminars. May be taken more than once for up to six credits. Usually taken first for one credit. This is the Capstone Course for Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology Students.
Description: Application of epidemiological methods and concepts to analysis of data from epidemiological, clinical or laboratory studies. Introduction to independent research and scientific writing under faculty guidance.
Prerequisites: Must be a current student in an Epidemiology program.
Advisory Prerequisites: For MPH students, intended to be taken in the first fall semester
Description: This course will introduce students to the field of epidemiology including needed professionalism and communication skills. This course will guide students through the Applied Practice Experience (APEx), help them prepare for internship and career opportunities, address responsible, ethical, and respectful engagement, and introduce students to careers in public health.
Learning Objectives: Present the history and foundations of public health and specifically the field of epidemiology.
Introduce students to the necessary tools for engaging in the profession of epidemiology, including professional communication and resume preparation
Train students in ethics, responsible conduct of research, and best practices for community practice and engagement
Familiarize students with the APEx requirements and process
Provide students the opportunity to engage in real-world public health settings and / or with practicing professionals.
Prerequisites: Must be a current student in an Epidemiology Program
Advisory Prerequisites: EPID667
Description: This course will introduce students to the field of epidemiology including needed professionalism and communication skills. This course will guide students through the Applied Practice Experience (APEx), help them prepare for internship and career opportunities, address responsible, ethical, and respectful engagement, and introduce students to careers in public health.
Learning Objectives: Introduce a range of formats for professional communication, leading students to be able to identify and/or create effective written and oral arguments within each of the communication formats we cover in this course.
Train students in principles of secure data management, data sharing, reproducibility and open science.
Familiarize students with regulatory processes in public health research.
Provide students with small-group support in finding and completing APEx and other academic and practice opportunities.
Provide students the opportunity to engage in real-world public health settings and / or with practicing professionals.
Prerequisites: Must be a current student in an Epidemiology program
Advisory Prerequisites: Prior completion of EPID667 and EPID668
Description: This course will introduce students to the field of epidemiology including needed professionalism and communication skills. This course will guide students through the Applied Practice Experience (APEx), help them prepare for internship and career opportunities, address responsible, ethical, and respectful engagement, and introduce students to careers in public health.
Learning Objectives: Reflect on internship and applied practice experiences
Document completing of the Applied Practice Experience (APEx) with submission of final products
Explore relevant resources in the SPH Career Development Office
Develop mentoring skills
Further refine communication and review skills
Determine individual professional development goals
Explore various careers in epidemiology
Prepare for graduation and next steps
Prerequisites: Enrolled in Epidemiology MS programs
Description: This capstone research project course is designed for Epidemiology MS students (30-credit or 48-credit CESM programs). Working with their mentor, students are expected to develop an original research project to address public health problems using epidemiologic methods.
Students will have the opportunity to apply what they learned in their coursework to important public health questions. Students will work with a faculty mentor to conduct a literature review, develop a research project, develop and implement an analysis plan, write up the results and discuss the implications of the findings, and present their work in the annual Epidemiology Poster Day.
Students are expected to begin their capstone project in their first term and complete it in the second term of their final year (or only, for one-year programs) of training (three credits per term, for a total of six credits). The Epidemiology Master’s committee will help students find an appropriate mentor. Details regarding the structure of capstone writing products and evaluation guidelines will be provided in the MS Student Handbook.
Learning Objectives: The learning objectives of and skills employed in this course are determined by the specific research project. The list below (which is not exhaustive) provides examples of learning objectives for this course:
1. Assess knowledge gaps in the scientific literature;
2. Develop a scientific research question designed to address a gap in the scientific literature
3. Identify appropriate data sources to address a research question;
4. Better understand the role of data in understanding public health problems;
5. Create a data collection instrument and/or collect data;
6. Analyze data (quantitative or mixed data – including both quantitative and qualitative) to test research hypotheses relevant to public health in a manner that reflects principles of epidemiology (e.g., study design, measurement, confounding, etc);
7. Generate appropriate data visualizations and/or presentations;
8. Communicate the significance, approach, and implications of epidemiological research in a written format appropriate for the target audience;
9. Complete research ethics training through the Program for the Education and Evaluation of Responsible Research and Scholarship (PEERRS). Two modules are required: Human Subjects Research Protections and Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarship (RCRS).
Description: This course will cover the epidemiology of viral diseases and their impact on human health. Students will learn how vaccines and other public health interventions for infectious diseases are developed, tested, and implemented.
Learning Objectives: Course Objectives will be to: - Introduce the history and evolution of vaccinology - Introduce the process and critical steps for new vaccine and antiviral discovery, development, licensure, and safety monitoring. - Introduce the intersection between viruses and human immune systems and their impact human health. - Demonstrate the integration of viral disease transmission into planning of vaccine and public health interventions. - Demonstrate how virus characteristics and genetic diversity impact human disease and intervention effectiveness. - Detail the epidemiologic methods and study designs central to understanding viral transmission and interventions.
