Public Health & Epidemiology Resources for College & Adult

Explore 12 curated public health & epidemiology learning resources designed for College & Adult students. Browse curricula, apps, videos, worksheets, and more to find the perfect fit for your learner.

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“Science writing as detective story at its best.” ―Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ebola, SARS...

The Challenges of Global Health

An introduction to key challenges and concepts important to understanding the current status and determinants of global health....

Clinical Epidemiology

About this Course Evidence forms the basis of modern medicine. Clinical research provides us with this evidence, guiding health professionals towards solutions to problems that they face in daily practice. Transferring existing problems in medical p...

Infectious diseases

Tuberculosis Almost one third of the entire world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the type of bacteria that causes TB. Although only a fraction of these people will actually become sick with the disease, in 2012, the World...

Statistical Reasoning for Public Health 2: Regression Methods

A practical and example filled tour of simple and multiple regression techniques (linear, logistic, and Cox PH) for estimation, adjustment and prediction....

Foundations for Global Health Responders

Around the world, we are increasingly socially and economically interdependent. Health on one side of the globe affects people on the other. Global health, once merely an ethical consideration, now dominates discussions and policies of global securit...

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Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health

Often called “the cornerstone” of public health, epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases, health conditions, or events among populations and the application of that study to control health problems. By applying the...

Ebola: Essential Knowledge for Health Professionals

March 2014 marked the starting point of the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history. Although the disease seems to be on a decrease, we are not there yet and new outbreaks will surely emerge. New efforts to combat the outbreak are necessar...

An Introduction to Global Health

This course will provide you with an overview of the most important health challenges facing the world today. You will gain insight into how challenges have changed over time, we will discuss the likely determinants of such changes and examine future...

Epidemics - the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

About this Course Not so long ago, it was almost guaranteed that you would die of an infectious disease. In fact, had you been born just 150 years ago, your chances of dying of an infectious disease before you've reached the tender age of 5 wo...

Statistical Reasoning for Public Health 1: Estimation, Inference, & Interpretation

A conceptual and interpretive public health approach to some of the most commonly used methods from basic statistics....

Community Change in Public Health

About this Course In bringing about behavior change in public health, we often focus on the individual mother, student, or farmer. We should not forget the community structure and norms constrain for encouraging individual health behaviors. This cou...