This specialization is intended for individuals who work or aspire to work in public health at the local, regional, and national levels.
Five courses led by faculty from a leading school of public health.
The course will teach you how to use basic epidemiological tools to:
Measure the health of populations.
Evaluate interventions.
Collect and analyze data.
Investigate outbreaks and epidemics.
Hands-on Learning Project
During the internship, learners will perform a wide range of project exercises, including:
Reflection.
Analysis.
Calculation.
Application.
Mapping.
assessment.
The goal is to solve real problems that professional epidemiologists encounter in the course of their work.
Details of the courses that make up the specialization
Essential epidemiological tools for public health practice
Course 1
4 hours
4.7 (2,960 ratings)
Course Details
What you’ll learn
You will improve your knowledge of public health history, services, management, and workforce.
Perform numerical assessments to assess public health problems and assess the burden of a condition in the population.
You will use data visualization as an epidemiological tool to describe risk factors.
Apply basic mapping skills and tools for epidemiological decision-making.
Skills you will acquire
Category: Data collection
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Tracking
Category: Disease Surveillance
Health data and indicators in public health practice
Course 2
6 hours
4.7 (1,187 ratings)
Course Details
What you’ll learn
Epidemiology is often described as the basic science of public health. Epidemiology in public health practice uses research design and analysis to identify factors in outbreak situations, guide measures to improve population health, and evaluate programs and policies.
During the course, we will define the role of the professional epidemiologist in the context of public health services, functions, and the necessary skills.
With this foundation, we will introduce you to the problem-solving methodology and describe how it can be used in a wide variety of situations to identify problems, propose solutions, and evaluate interventions.
This methodology is based on the use of reliable data, so we will explore in depth the regular and public data systems that underlie epidemiology and then conclude how these data can be used to calculate measures of disease burden in populations.
Skills you will acquire
Category: Data collection
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Disease Surveillance
Tracking Systems: The Building Blocks
Course 3
5 hours
4.8 (471 ratings)
Course Details
What you’ll learn
We will discuss the role of surveillance in the field of epidemiology and public health.
We will set goals to determine cases for follow-up.
Use of public health surveillance reporting systems.
We will compare surveillance systems based on system features.
Skills you will acquire
Category: Statistics
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Outbreak Investigation
Category: Public Health
Surveillance systems: analysis, distribution and special systems
Course 4
6 hours
4.7 (361 ratings)
Course Details
What you’ll learn
Analyze and interpret epidemiological surveillance data.
Present tracking data in accordance with legal reporting requirements.
Use the principles of epidemiological surveillance in chronic non-communicable diseases.
Identify distinctions between monitoring systems based on indicators, events, and related events.
Skills you will acquire
Category: Evaluation
Category: Geographic Information System (GIS)
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Visualization
Outbreaks and epidemics
Course 5
5 hours
4.8 (727 ratings)
Course Details
What you’ll learn
Apply methods to evaluate evidence and calculate metrics.
Discuss outbreaks and the key epidemiological tools designed to investigate them.
Apply basic epidemic dynamics in outbreak analysis.
