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University of Iowa
Certificate in Emerging Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Detailed Course Descriptions
Required courses (6 semester hours)
173:159 Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (2 s.h.) - Introduces principles of infectious disease epidemiology. It will include a practical overview of host factors, environmental factors, and microbiological factors that influence this dynamic field of study. Through lectures and exercises, students will be introduced to infectious disease surveillance, diagnostic tools, outbreak investigations, vaccine trials, public health interventions, biodefense, emerging infectious diseases and analytical approaches as they pertain to infectious disease prevention and control. Students will be introduced to a wide array of reference material (much of it public) that will help them in practically applying course material. This course is offered on-campus as part of the College of Public Health Summer Institute.
173:158 Public Health Laboratory Techniques (1 s.h.) - Introduces public health laboratory methods. A special emphasis will be placed upon respiratory virus work, especially influenza. This course is offered on-campus as part of the College of Public Health Summer Institute.
173:157 Zoonotic Diseases (3 s.h.) - Introduces epidemiology and control of zoonotic diseases. The course is comprised of readings, lectures, field studies, and laboratory exercises. Zoonoses endemic to the Midwestern United States are emphasized. This course is offered on-campus as part of the College of Public Health Summer Institute.
Additional courses (6 semester hours required from the following)
173:155 Diagnostic Microbiology (3 s.h.) - Introduces microbiological culture, antigen detection, immunological and molecular amplification laboratory techniques for bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi. This course is offered in asynchronous web-based format in the spring semester.
173:140 Epidemiology I: Principles (3 s.h.) - Epidemiologic concepts and methods including design of descriptive and analytic studies, such as aggregate, case series, cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort studies; application of epidemiology to public health practice; communication and dissemination of epidemiologic findings. This course is offered in asynchronous web-based format in the spring semester. This is a required course for the MPH degree.
171:161 Introduction to Biostatistics (3 s.h.) - Introduction to the application of statistical techniques to biological data. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions, sampling distributions; tests of significance, confidence intervals, analysis of frequency data, and simple linear regression. This course is offered in asynchronous web-based format in the fall semester. This is a required course for the MPH degree.
175:197 Environmental Health (3 s.h.) - Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health that are determined by interactions with physical, chemical, biological and social factors in the global environment. This course surveys all aspects, focusing on issues most relevant today. This course is offered in asynchronous web-based format in the spring semester. This is a required course for the MPH degree. Requirements for the class include an oral presentation and 10-page paper.
All courses will be conducted in English.
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