Essential Epidemiologic Tools for Public Health Practice
Johns Hopkins University
In order to make a difference in the health and well-being of a population, we must understand the burden of all problems and conditions that affect the population, as well as how well our efforts to mitigate these problems are actually working. This course provides you with some essential skills and tools that will enhance your ability to describe and understand the health of your community. The tools that epidemiologists use are in fact useful for all public health practitioners, including dat
About this Course
In order to make a difference in the health and well-being of a population, we must understand the burden of all problems and conditions that affect the population, as well as how well our efforts to mitigate these problems are actually working. This course provides you with some essential skills and tools that will enhance your ability to describe and understand the health of your community. The tools that epidemiologists use are in fact useful for all public health practitioners, including dat
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
Instructors
Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health