Introduction to Public Health is a 3-credit course, a basic course in epidemiology is directed at
public health professionals from different countries including developed and
developing countries. Its content includes presentations and discussions of
epidemiologic principles, basic statistical analysis, public health
surveillance, field investigations, surveys and sampling, and discussions of
the epidemiologic aspects of current major public health problems in
international health. Included a small
group discussion of epidemiologic case exercises based on field investigations.
Participants are encouraged to give a short presentation reviewing some epidemiologic
data from their own experienced data for their research.