Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
How infectious diseases spread through populations and how vaccination, surveillance and outbreak control stop them.
PUBH-320 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Public Health
Course content
- 1The chain of infectionComing
- 2Modes of transmissionComing
- 3Reproduction numbers and epidemic curvesComing
- 4Vaccines and immunization programsComing
- 5Herd immunity and vaccine confidenceComing
- 6Respiratory infections, influenza and COVID-19Coming
- 7Foodborne and waterborne diseaseComing
- 8Sexually transmitted and bloodborne infectionsComing
- 9TuberculosisComing
- 10Vector-borne and zoonotic diseasesComing
- 11Antimicrobial resistanceComing
- 12Investigating an outbreakComing
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
How infectious diseases spread through populations and how vaccination, surveillance and outbreak control stop them.
Part of the Health Sciences stream, typically taken in year 3.