Topic:
Epidemiology & Surveillance
Format:
Online Course
Time:
45 minutes
Level:
Introductory
University:
University of North Carolina
PERLC:
University of North Carolina PERLC
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Description:
This training, offered by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, provides an overview of the basic steps that can be followed to investigate an outbreak, including verification of diagnosis, incubation period, generating a hypothesis, case definition, case finding, and orienting case-patient data by person, place, and time. This module is part of the I is for Investigation training series developed to introduce non-epidemiologists to the basic concepts of outbreak investigation.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify steps of an outbreak investigation
- Develop a case definition
- Identify a process for case finding in an outbreak
- Apply methods used to orient data by person, place, and time
- Create and interpret epidemic curves
PHEP Capabilities:
Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation