Johns Hopkins University
Epidemiology in Public Health Practice Specialization
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Johns Hopkins University

Epidemiology in Public Health Practice Specialization

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

(3,606 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
1 month at 10 hours a week
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers

Overview

  • Become familiar with the epidemiologic toolset

  • Measure the health of populations

  • Collect and analyze public health surveillance data

  • Investigate disease outbreaks and epidemics

What’s included

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Taught in English
20 practice exercises

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  • Learn in-demand skills from university and industry experts
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Specialization - 5 course series

What you'll 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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Epidemiology
Category: Geographic Information Systems
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Public Health
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Community Health
Category: Data Collection
Category: Biostatistics
Category: Health Policy
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Geospatial Mapping
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Estimation

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Epidemiology
Category: Public Health
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Data Collection
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Descriptive Analytics
Category: Health Policy

What you'll learn

  • Discuss the role of surveillance within the broader fields of epidemiology and public health

  • Assign objectives to define surveillance cases

  • Use public health surveillance reporting systems

  • Compare and contrast surveillance systems using system attributes

Skills you'll gain

Category: Public Health
Category: Epidemiology
Category: Health Policy
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Surveys
Category: Data Collection
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Report Writing
Category: Health Systems
Category: Trend Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Analyze and interpret epidemiologic surveillance data

  • Present surveillance data in compliance with legal reporting requirements

  • Apply epidmiologic surveillance principles to non-communicable chronic diseases

  • Differentiate among indicator-based, event-based, and event-related surveillance systems

Skills you'll gain

Category: Epidemiology
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Category: Chronic Diseases
Category: Trend Analysis
Category: Public Health
Category: Information Privacy
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Technical Communication
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Health Policy
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Microbiology
Category: Data Collection
Category: Law, Regulation, and Compliance

What you'll learn

  • Apply methods to weigh evidence and calculate measures

  • Discuss outbreaks and the key epidemiologic tools used during investigation

  • Apply basic epidemic dynamics to the analysis of outbreaks

Skills you'll gain

Category: Epidemiology
Category: Investigation
Category: Infectious Diseases
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Public Health
Category: Biostatistics
Category: Research Methodologies
Category: Probability & Statistics
Category: Report Writing
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Laboratory Testing
Category: Statistics

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Instructors

Aruna Chandran, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course59,353 learners
Keri Althoff, PhD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course35,954 learners
Justin Lessler, PhD, MS
Johns Hopkins University
3 Courses198,813 learners
Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
9 Courses1,568,254 learners

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