Public Health & Epidemiology
How to Learn Public Health & Epidemiology
Public Health and Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health and disease in populations. It is a field of study that uses data from many different disciplines, including biology, medicine, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and economics.
The goals of public health and epidemiology are to promote health and prevent disease. Public health and epidemiology are important because they can help us understand the causes of health and disease, and how to prevent them.
Some of the topics that are studied in public health and epidemiology include:
- Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Health disparities
- Epidemiologic methods
- Biostatistics
- Environmental health
- Occupational health
- Community health
- Maternal and child health
- Chronic disease epidemiology
- infectious disease epidemiology
Public Health & Epidemiology Resources
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Challenges of Global Health
An introduction to key challenges and concepts important to understanding the current status and determinants of global health....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...