Portland-State-University 2024-2025 Bulletin

Epi 668 Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Provides an introduction to infectious epidemiology, and includes fundamental topics such as outbreak investigation, public health communicable disease surveillance and reporting, biological concepts of disease introduction, evolution and spread, and design of population-based studies to evaluate features of infectious diseases (e.g., risk factors, method of spread, clinical features, disease prevalence). Will also introduce some of the categories of communicable diseases and highlight some features of the major diseases within each category.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

Epi 512 and Bsta 512
  • Up one level
  • 600