<p>Lecture, two hours. Requisite: course 200B. Introduction to practice-based concepts for conducting epidemiology in a local or state health agency. Topics include funding issues, data sources, study design concerns, bureaucratic challenges, use of epidemiology for evidence-based decision-making, and communication of findings to lay audiences. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Epidemiology

Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

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EPIDEM 415 - Practicing Epidemiology in Government Health Agencies

Practicing Epidemiology in Government Health Agencies

Understand how to effectively communicate epidemiologic and 
public health information to government administrators, 
community groups and the media 

Evaluate the strengths and limitations of epidemiologic studies

Explain how epidemiologic data informs the development, 
implementation and evaluation of a public health program and 
public health policy

Draw appropriate inferences from epidemiologic data 

Design an epidemiologic study of a public health issue and 
calculate basic epidemiologic measures

Describe a public health issue in terms of magnitude, person, 
time and place 

Identify primary and secondary data sources that are typically 
available to a government-based epidemiologist. 

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Practicing Epidemiology in Government Health Agencies

EPIDEM 415

2 units