Certificate in Principles and Applied Epidemiology
- Lusaka, Zambia
- Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Certificate
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Certificate in Principles and Applied Epidemiology at Texila American University introduces core concepts and viewpoints of epidemiology and public health. It delivers specialized knowledge on methods for assessing factors tied to disease distribution and etiology, plus skills in sourcing and evaluating health data, calculating epidemiologic metrics, investigation techniques, study design appraisal, screening, surveillance, monitoring, hypothesis testing, descriptive, analytical and experimental research, and forecasting.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as epidemiologists, disease surveillance officers, outbreak investigators, public health analysts, biostatistics and data analysts, research assistants, health programme coordinators, or disease control officers in agencies, hospitals, NGOs, and research institutes.
This course offers the concepts and points of view of epidemiology. It provides highly specialized knowledge in the field of public health epidemiology, giving importance to various methods of assessing factors associated with the distribution and etiology of diseases and health-related events in a community. Skills include approaches to identifying and evaluating sources of health information, calculating key epidemiologic metrics, epidemiologic investigation techniques, and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of different study designs. The course also provides methods to detect health-related events as early as possible through screening techniques. Public health surveillance, observation, monitoring, screening, hypothesis formulation and testing, descriptive, analytical and experimental research and forecasting are part of epidemiology.
