Courses and Events
Fall 2008
Fall 2008
To register for the fall courses for academic credit, please register though UC Berkeley. To register for any of the fall courses for non-academic credit, please fill out the registration form (available through the below link) and return to Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness at 1918 University Avenue, 4th floor, Berkeley, California 94704-7350. You may also fax the form to (510) 643-4926.
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Applied Epidemiology Using R
Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Course Description: This is an intensive, one-semester introduction to the R programming language for applied epidemiology. R is a freely available, multi-platform (Mac OS, Linux, and Windows, etc.), versatile, and powerful 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.
Dates of Instruction: September 2- December 4, 2008; Tuesdays, 12pm - 2pm
Location: 2311 Tolman Hall, UC Berkeley, Campus
Cost: Free for no credit
For more information please Click Here.
Course Description: This is an intensive, one-semester introduction to the R programming language for applied epidemiology. R is a freely available, multi-platform (Mac OS, Linux, and Windows, etc.), versatile, and powerful 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.
Dates of Instruction: September 2- December 4, 2008; Tuesdays, 12pm - 2pm
Location: 2311 Tolman Hall, UC Berkeley, Campus
Cost: Free for no credit
For more information please Click Here.
PH 257B: Public Health Preparedness & Emergency Response
Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Course Description: This one semester course is an intensive introduction to public health emergency preparedness and response, and covers the following topic areas: the role of public health in disasters, natural disasters and severe weather, intentional mass threats (CBRNE), detecting and monitoring public health threats, post-disaster sampling, surveys, and rapid needs assessments, public health emergency incident management system, emergency operations planning and exercises, infectious disease emergency readiness, environmental health emergency readiness, mental health emergency readiness, special needs and vulnerable populations, essentials of public health leadership during a disaster, essentials of crisis risk communication, essentials of investigating outbreaks, disaster medicine and mass casualty care, and personal and community disaster preparedness.
Dates of Instruction: September 2- December 4, 2008; Tuesdays, 10am - 12pm
Location: 2304 Tolman, UC Berkeley Campus
Cost: Free for no credit
For more information please Click Here.
Course Description: This one semester course is an intensive introduction to public health emergency preparedness and response, and covers the following topic areas: the role of public health in disasters, natural disasters and severe weather, intentional mass threats (CBRNE), detecting and monitoring public health threats, post-disaster sampling, surveys, and rapid needs assessments, public health emergency incident management system, emergency operations planning and exercises, infectious disease emergency readiness, environmental health emergency readiness, mental health emergency readiness, special needs and vulnerable populations, essentials of public health leadership during a disaster, essentials of crisis risk communication, essentials of investigating outbreaks, disaster medicine and mass casualty care, and personal and community disaster preparedness.
Dates of Instruction: September 2- December 4, 2008; Tuesdays, 10am - 12pm
Location: 2304 Tolman, UC Berkeley Campus
Cost: Free for no credit
For more information please Click Here.
Announcements
SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH
Join the national campaign to raise awareness and promote action on Emergency Preparedness.
For more information go to www.ready.gov or view our webcasts to learn more about preparedness issues at webcast.idready.org.
CIDER OFFERS TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TO PUBLIC HEALTH
CIDER provides specialized education and trainings, development and facilitation of mandated exercise activities, and targeted technical assistance to local and state public health agencies.
For more information on our services, please contact Christine Siador, Associate Director, at (510) 643-4932.
Pandemic Influenza
"Just In Case" Curriculum
For Information about the JIC Curriculum click here.
To view the JIC Curriculum please click here.
Spring Course: Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases
Please click here for a complete list of available archived lectures.
Building Bridges: Public Health and Private Sectors Responding to Pandemic Influenza
Click here to get PowerPoints, webcasts and post conference materials from the CIDER Summer Intensive Program 2007.
REDI-US Study
Participants: Click Here!