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Introduction to Infectious Disease Epidemiology – Principles, Dynamics and Control Measures

3-Day Certified University Course

10 - 12 July 2025

 

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COURSE OVERVIEW

This 3-day virtual course provides an introduction to infectious disease epidemiology including key principles of infectious diseases, transmission dynamics, and control measures. The course will cover the key principles of infectious diseases, how and why they differ from non-communicable diseases, which determinants are relevant and impact the burden of disease. In addition, we will give an overview on surveillance, outbreak investigation, and discuss public health control measures. Furthermore, vaccination study design, analytic methods with causal inference, regulation, safety and efficacy will be covered. The course will also introduce the principles of infectious disease modelling and outbreak simulation.

The course will be interactive and practical, with a mixture of lectures, hands-on exercises and interactive discussions.

The course is created for:

  • Medical, master and doctoral students
  • Suitable for anyone with an interest in infectious diseases
  • Junior and senior researchers in medicine and health & life sciences

Course Pre-requisites:

This is an introductory course, there are no pre-requisites. However, basic knowledge in epidemiology may be of advantage.
Course language is English.

 

THE COURSE COVERS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

  • Key principles of Infectious diseases, transmission dynamics, determinants
    • Key principles of infectious diseases, agents, reservoirs
    • Agent-host-environment interaction
    • Dynamics of infectious diseases (e.g., basic reproductive number)
    • Determinants, transmission, environment and climate change
    • Burden of disease, socioeconomic context
  • Surveillance and outbreak investigation
    • Surveillance systems, type of surveillance data, analyse surveillance data, Time series surveillance
    • Outbreak investigation, case definitions, foodborne/waterborne outbreak as a case, case-control study concept
    • Control measures, methods to interrupt disease transmission
    • Preparedness planning for outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics of infectious diseases (aims, structures, status quo)
  • Vaccinology
    • Vaccination study design and processes of vaccine development
    • Analytic methods and causal inference from observational studies (e.g., test-negative design, target trial emulation)
    • Regulation, safety, and efficacy of vaccines
    • Evaluation of the effectiveness of vaccination programs
  • Infectious disease modelling
    • Introduction to infectious disease modelling, transmission model types
    • Outbreak simulation
    • Decision science for public health policy

COURSE DOCUMENTATION

Certificates will be provided to all participants after the course. Students will be accredited 5 ECTS for successfully completing the online platform exercises as well as their attendance and active participation during the attendance part of the course.