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2023-2026 Academic Catalog

MPH 7753 - Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

This course presents an epidemiologic survey of infectious diseases of Puerto Rico, the United States and abroad. The course is divided into two parts. The first part includes basic epidemiological and statistical methods used in the prevention, control and identification of major risk factors, vector transmission and etiology of infectious diseases. The second part encompasses detailed discussions of the Epidemiology of selected illnesses such as dengue, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, hepatitis C, malaria, nosocomial infections, tuberculosis, and other selected infectious diseases are included.