Download EPID 828- INFECTIOUS DISEASES

COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
EPID 828- INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Beatriz Eugenia Alvarado
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology
Caruthers Hall, Office No 205
Phone: 613 533 6000 ext 79540
Email: [email protected]
Teaching assistant: Tasha Hanuschak, MSC student
PREREQUISITES
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Having approved the basic biostatistics and/or epidemiology courses
RATIONALE OF THIS COURSE
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Infectious diseases produce a high burden of disease in the globe. Students need to be
familiar with the main global/Canadian infectious diseases problems
Public health practitioners and epidemiologist should have a good understanding of how
host-agent biology interacts with environment to produce diseases. Infectious conditions
are a unique example of human, agent and environment interactions.
Public health practitioners and epidemiologist will be in charge of studying outbreaks and
in designing and implementing simple surveillance systems. Students will be introduced
to some concrete cases and local cases to deep their knowledge.
While working with communities, public health practitioners and epidemiologist may
encounter populations with elevated burden of infectious diseases. Therefore is necessary
to know what factors may account for such burden, and what strategies could be more
effective in reducing transmission of contagious diseases.
LEARNING GOAL(S): What we hope you will develop through this course
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To recognize and understand the basic concepts related to infectious diseases: immunity,
infection, latency, resistance, transmission, virulence among others.
To be able to design and evaluate a simple surveillance system, and analyze data from
outbreaks
To be aware of methodological, analytical and diagnostic tools related to the study of
infectious diseases.
To be able to describe an infectious disease problem and illustrate how multiple
causes/factors interact to explain the dynamic of transmission and perpetuation.
To articulate biology, host and environment knowledge to explain the dynamic of
transmission and possible prevention of an ID problem.
To be able to recognize advantages and limitations of different public health interventions
addressing infectious disease prevention and control.
To incorporate ethical aspects in their appraisal of an infectious disease related problem.
ASSESSMENT
20% Forums of discussion (one per student): Each student will be assigned one week in which
they have to contribute with an update of a recent discussion on an infectious disease related
event. Student should summarize some news or recent paper and provide feedback.
40% two take home exams: one mid-term and other at the end of the course. The take home
exam will evaluate the knowledge and integration of main concepts of the course.
30%. Case presentation. Students will be assign to a case study to present in class. Rules for
presentation will be available in moodle.
10% class participation, group presentation.
COURSE CALENDAR
DATE
Class 1
Jan 8
CONTENT
Syllabus presentation/ Introduction to ID burden globally and in Canada
Dr Beatriz Alvarado
Class 2
Jan 15
Basic concepts of ID: natural history, transmission, dynamics of risk.
Dr Jorge Martinez
Class 3
Jan 22
Class work: grasping the main concepts with application to an specific ID
Outbreak investigation: basic concepts and analysis
Dr Beatriz Alvarado
Class 4
Jan 29
Class work: workshop and lecture on food outbreaks
Surveillance of infectious diseases, local examples. Invited speaker
Dr. Kieran Moore
Class 5
Feb 5
Class work: lecture and group presentation of assigned surveillance systems
Social networks and geographic analysis and its importance in IDs.
Dr Ann Jolly
Class work: Lecture and discussion
Class 6
Feb 12
Disease ecology (I) Introduction (individual and social factors):
Dr Beatriz Alvarado
Class work: Lecture and presentation of Case 1 and Case 2
Study week
Class 7
Feb 26
Disease ecology II (Climate change, urbanization, travel, wars):
Dr Beatriz Alvarado
Class work: Lecture and presentation of Case 3 and Case 4
Class 8
March 5
Introduction to ID control
Dr Beatriz Alvarado
Class work: Lecture and presentation of Case 5 and Case 6
Class 9
Control of ID at public health units: KFLA
March 12 Dr Beatriz Alvarado; guess speaker. TBD.
Class work: Lecture and presentation of case 7 and 8
Class 10
Public health ethics
March 19 Dr Beatriz Alvarado
Class work: Lecture and presentation of case 9 and 10
Class 11
Hospital Infection and its control:
March 27 Dr Zoutman
Class work: Lecture
PLEASE NOTE THIS CLASS WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY