San Juan Mountains in Fall with pretty Aspen trees

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This Open Educational Resource is designed to provide students with an introduction to Epidemiology, the population science that supports public health! The following modules contain topic objectives, summaries, readings, videos, and links to many helpful resources! This course is designed to be interactive. Embedded questions and exercises will help students practice concepts and solidify knowledge.

Module 1, What is epidemiology? Historical and current practice

Module 2, One Health and the emergence of infectious diseases

Module 3, Public health surveillance: data collection

Module 4, Describing and displaying public health data

Module 5, Descriptive epidemiology and disease distribution

Module 6, Analytic epidemiology and disease causation

Module 7, Disease prevention

[OER] PH 380 Introduction to Epidemiology