July 26 - Aug. 6, Monday - Friday
9am - 12 noon

Announcement: Participants unable to attend the entire 2-week Field Epidemiology Basics course may choose to attend individual sessions. These stand-alone seminars are each approximately one hour in length. Continuing Education Credits are not available for these individual seminars. Please see the schedule for topics, times, and locations. There is no fee for these seminars. Arrive 15 minutes before the start of the seminar to register.

INSTRUCTORS: Tom�s Arag�n, MD, DrPH, Medical Epidemiologist and Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness and guest speakers from state and local health departments

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This 2-week course will cover the basics of an epidemiologic field investigation, including: concepts of communicable disease epidemiology for the prevention and control of microbial threats; surveillance and detection methods; description of findings and hypothesis generation; study design and data analysis (hypothesis testing); operational aspects of conducting a field investigation; and analysis of outbreak modules using a computer lab. The computer lab component will emphasize data cleaning, entry, analysis and interpretation.

TARGET AUDIENCES: This course is targeted to public health staff who want to learn how to enter, analyze and interpret epidemiologic data. Target audiences include public health practitioners such as communicable disease investigators, environmental health specialists, epidemiologists, health educators, health officers, laboratorians, medical epidemiologists, and public health nurses.

COURSE PREREQUISITES: 1) A basic familiarity of computers and an interest in conducting epidemiologic data analyses using computer software; and 2) basic mathematic skills, including ability to utilize fractions, ratios, and percentages

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the concepts of communicable disease epidemiology for the prevention and control of microbial threats
2. Describe basic methods for the surveillance and detection of microbial threats, including bioterrorism
3. Describe descriptive epidemiology basics, field study designs and hypothesis testing, measures of association and data analysis, and threats to validity in analytic epidemiology
4. Describe the operational aspects of epidemiologic field investigations
5. Conduct basic data analysis using freely available numerical tools

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT:
Continuing Medical Education (CME): This is an activity offered by the California Department of Health Services, a CMA-accredited provider. Physicians attending this course may report up to 27.5 hours of Category I credits toward the California Medical Association's Certificate in Continuing Medical Education and the American Medical Association's Physician's Recognition Award.

Nursing Continuing Education (CEU): The California Department of Health Services, Continuing Professional Education Program is an approved provider of Nursing Continuing Education, Provider Number 00584. This activity has been approved for 33 nursing contact hours. Nurses will be required to attend the entire course to receive credit.

LOCATION:	Lecture location: 200 Wheeler Hall
	Computer lab location: 1535 Tolman Hall

COURSE FEE: $25