UCB Courses
Designing Public Health Emergency Operations Drills and Exercises
Course description: Participants will be given instruction on the process of exercise design. Participants will be divided into teams with the goal of planning, developing, executing, and evaluating an exercise. Participants will be asked to contribute information from current needs assessments and current bioterrorism response plans to be tested during the course of the program. Target audience: This course is intended for public health practitioners, including epidemiologists, public health nurses, communicable disease investigator, bioterrorism coordinators, emergency medical specialists, public information officers, and environmental health specialists.
Prerequisites: None
Instructor: Cindy Lambdin, RN, MS
Schedule: Tuesdays, 9:00 am - 10:30 am, full semester
starting on August 30, 2005.
Conducting an Outbreak Investigation
Course description: This is a half-semester introduction to conducting an outbreak investigation. This course will focus on core basics of surveillance, screening, outbreak detection, case investigation, hypothesis generation, study design and hypothesis testing, and communicating findings. (Public health graduate students should enroll in in Dr. Reingold's PH 257 [Sect 1, CCN 76361] that will meet on Tuesdays, 11am-12pm, 24 Warren Hall)
Target audience: This course is intended for public health practitioners with limited training or experience in field outbreak investigations, and might include public health nurses, communicable disease investigators, epidemiologists, bioterrorism coordinators, emergency medical specialists, and environmental health specialists.
Prerequisites: Introductory epidemiology recommended
Instructor: Janet Mohle-Boetani, MD, MPH
Schedule: Tuesdays, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, halfsemester
starting on August 30, 2005.
Applied Epidemiology Using R (with computer lab)
Course description: This is a one-semester introduction to the R programming language for applied epidemiology. R is a freely program for statistical computing and graphics (http://www.r-project.org). This course will focus on core basics of organizing, managing, and manipulating epidemiologic data; basic epidemiologic applications; introduction to R programming; and basic R graphics.
Target audience: This course is intended for epidemiologists, medical epidemiologists, data analysts, and demographers that want an introduction to the R language.
Prerequisites: Completion of one semester of epidemiology
and one semester of statistics.
Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH
Schedule: Tuesdays, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm, full
semester starting on August 30, 2005.