Courses Details
EPID543: Viruses And Vaccines In Public Health
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall, Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Emily Martin (Residential);
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: This course will cover the epidemiology of viral diseases and their impact on human health. Students will learn how vaccines and other public health interventions for infectious diseases are developed, tested, and implemented.
- Learning Objectives: Course Objectives will be to: - Introduce the history and evolution of vaccinology - Introduce the process and critical steps for new vaccine and antiviral discovery, development, licensure, and safety monitoring. - Introduce the intersection between viruses and human immune systems and their impact human health. - Demonstrate the integration of viral disease transmission into planning of vaccine and public health interventions. - Demonstrate how virus characteristics and genetic diversity impact human disease and intervention effectiveness. - Detail the epidemiologic methods and study designs central to understanding viral transmission and interventions.
- Syllabus for EPID543
