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Investigating Epidemics like COVID-19: An Analyst's Guide
  • Level Professional
  • Duration 13 hours
  • Course by Johns Hopkins University
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Do you want to learn how to detect, identify the cause, and decrease the morbidity and mortality from outbreaks or pandemics like COVID-19? Are you considering a career in public health practice, but aren’t sure how health departments collect and use outbreak data? Are you working in public health, but interested in moving into analytical and/or technical roles or curious how health departments investigate outbreaks? If so, this course is for you. After taking this course you be able to define key terms related to outbreaks and describe how surveillance data are collected and analyzed to detect outbreaks. You will be able to create epidemic curves and draw conclusions about transmission and cause from the shape of the curve and median incubation period. You will be able to describe the steps to investigating outbreaks and use that knowledge to guide an outbreak investigation. Using statistical software or excel, you will be able to identify demographic and geographic disparities and key exposures, and to calculate secondary attack rates. You will be able to quantify associations between health outcomes and key exposures using odds ratios and confidence intervals and to interpret and use findings to inform public health responses.

Modules

Meet the Instructors

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Introduction to detecting, investigating, and analyzing data from epidemics

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  • Introduction to detecting, investigating, and analyzing data from epidemics

Purpose for Surveillance in Public Health

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Reportable and Notifiable Disease Reporting

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Epidemic Curves are made from Surveillance Data

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Summative Assessment

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  • Public Health Surveillance

Outbreak investigation: an overview

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  • Outbreak investigation: an overview

How the data analyst detects an outbreak

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  • How the data analyst detects an outbreak

Trends Lab Activity

    • 3 Videos
    • 3 Readings
    • 1 Lab
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1 Assignment

  • Trends Lab Activity

1 Labs

  • Trends Lab Activity

3 Videos

  • Trends Activity Introduction Video
  • Trends R Activity Walkthrough (Optional)
  • Trends Excel Activity Walkthrough (Optional)

3 Readings

  • Lab Activities in R or Excel
  • Introduction
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More ways to describe your surveillance and outbreak data

    • 5 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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2 Assignment

  • Disparities Activity
  • Spatial Disparities Lab Activity

2 Labs

  • Disparities Lab Activity
  • Spatial Lab Activity

5 Videos

  • Disparities R Activity Walkthrough (Optional)
  • Disparities Excel Activity Walkthrough (Optional)
  • Disparities Excel Extra Help (Optional)
  • Spatial R Activity Walkthrough (Optional)
  • Spatial Excel Activity Walkthrough (Optional)

1 Readings

  • Disparities Lab Activity

Detecting and Investigating COVID-19 in an Assisted Living Facility: The Scenario

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  • Detecting and investigating COVID-19 in an Assisted Living Facility: the scenario

Outbreak Analysis and Display Activity

    • 2 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Lab
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  • Outbreak Analysis and Display Activity

1 Labs

  • Outbreak Analysis and Display Activity

2 Videos

  • Outbreak Analysis and Display R Activity Walkthrough (Optional)
  • Outbreak Analysis and Display Excel Activity Walkthrough (Optional)

2 Readings

  • Outbreak Analysis and Display Activity
  • Closing Thoughts

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Dive into "Investigating Epidemics like COVID-19: An Analyst's Guide" to master outbreak detection and analysis in the Health & Fitness domain. This professional-level course, led by Coursera, equips you with skills to collect and analyze surveillance data, create epidemic curves, and conduct outbreak investigations using statistical tools. Ideal for those in or aspiring to public health analytical roles, the course spans 780 minutes and offers Starter and Professional subscription options. Enhance your ability to inform public health responses and tackle pandemics effectively.

Melissa A. Marx, PhD, MPH
Instructors

Melissa A. Marx, PhD, MPH

Heather M. Saunders MPH, RN, CIC
Instructors

Heather M. Saunders MPH, RN, CIC