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Essential Epidemiologic Tools for Public Health Practice

In order to make a difference in the health and well-being of a population, we must understand the burden of all problems and conditions that affect the popu...
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Platform: Coursera
Video: 1h 53m
Language: English

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Description

In order to make a difference in the health and well-being of a population, we must understand the burden of all problems and conditions that affect the population, as well as how well our efforts to mitigate these problems are actually working. This course provides you with some essential skills and tools that will enhance your ability to describe and understand the health of your community. The tools that epidemiologists use are in fact useful for all public health practitioners, including data scientists, program officials, agency leaders, and policymakers. Whether you are deeply enmeshed in your career and looking to augment your skills, or are looking to change career paths into the field of public health, this course will give you some of the practical knowledge and skills that we hope you can apply in your professional endeavors.

You will learn

✓ Be conversant in public health history, services, governance, and workforce.
✓ Perform numeric estimates to assess public health problems and evaluate the burden of a condition in a population
✓ Use data visualization as an epidemiological tool to describe risk factors
✓ Apply basic mapping skills and a tool for epidemiologic descion-making

Requirements

There is no prerequisite, anyone can begin this course.. This course is also great for beginners without any Public Health knowledge.

This course is for

This course is suitable for beginners.
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Chandran is a social epidemiologist, interested in applying epidemiologic methods to address the influences of socioeconomic and place-based factors on health outcomes. Her interest is in applying epidemiologic methods to address health disparities and inequities through analyzing and understanding social determinants of health. She is involved in several multi-cohort consortium projects studying both HIV prevention/treatment as well as child health outcomes. She also coordinates several studies related to program implementation and evaluation in collaboration with the Baltimore City Health Department. Dr. Chandran has experience in coordinating and conducting surveillance studies, program evaluations, and clinical trials both in the US as well as in numerous low and middle income countries. Her topical areas of study have included child injury and violence prevention, HIV and other infectious disease surveillance and monitoring, as well as vaccines and nutritional interventions for childhood upper and lower respiratory infections. As a pediatrician, Dr. Chandran’s clinical practice has centered around childhood emergency and urgent care. She is involved in teaching introductory epidemiology courses both at the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine. Dr. Chandran previously served for two years as the Chief of Epidemiologic Services at the Baltimore City Health Department.
Platform: Coursera
Video: 1h 53m
Language: English

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