Essentials of infectious disease epidemiology

Why learn methods in infectious disease epidemiology?

Why study methods?

Descriptive infectious disease epidemiology

Outbreak investigations

Rates and measures

Laying the foundation: how to conduct a study

Experimental designs as a foundation for observational studies

Cohort studies

Case-control and cross-sectional studies

Interpretation of epidemiologic data

Threats to internal and external validity of concern in the study of infectious disease epidemiology

Surveillance of infectious diseases

Program evaluation in the infectious disease setting.