Introduction to Intervention Epidemiology and MicrobiologyArchived

Objectives:

• Acquire skills in all training objectives: outbreak investigation methods, planning, establishment and evaluation of surveillance systems, applied research, communication and teaching
• Use methods of outbreak investigation;
• Gain understanding of public health microbiology;
• Develop and present a study protocol (defining the study question, designing the methodology, drawing the questionnaire and presenting the protocol to the rest of the group and to the facilitators);
• Develop and evaluate surveillance systems and analyse surveillance data;
• Use analytical epidemiological skills for data analysis: risk, association, impact, stratification, bias, confounding, effect modification, matching and multi-variable analysis;
• Communicate scientific findings;
• Learn how to teach.