CIDER Upcoming Events & Courses
Spring 2010
To register for Spring 2009 Courses for academic credit, please register through UC Berkeley. For non-academic students, please fill out the registration form (available through the below link) and fax the form to (510) 643-4926.
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Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases
Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Course Description: This is a one semester intensive introduction to the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases. The course is taught from the perspective public health communicable disease control officers: frontline practitioners that detect, investigate, control, and prevent infectious diseases in communities. The lectures are given by public health communicable disease experts that practice, teach, investigate, and conduct research in their specific areas.
The course will emphasize:
(1) core concepts in infectious disease transmission mechanisms, dynamics, and containment;
(2) evidence-based approaches to designing and implementing infectious disease control and prevention measures; and
(3) epidemiologic methods for investigating infectious diseases.
Dates of Instruction: January 25 –April 26, 2010;
Mondays, 10am – 1pm
Location: 127 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Cost: Free for non-academic students
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Ethics and Public Health in an Age of Catastrophe
Instructor: Harvey Kayman, MD, MPH, PHMO III, Senior Science Adviser, Emergency Preparendess and Response Branch, Division of Communicable Disease Control, California Department of Public Health
Course Description: Every natural and man-made catastrophe presents unique challenges to affected institutions and agencies. Finding one's way ethically is particularly problematic. Issues of professional conduct and responsibility, of civil rights and civil liberties, and of conscience, are bound to appear. In the midst of catastrophe, hard decisions will have to be made rapidly under anxiety filled and emergency conditions. The goal of this course is to enable course participants to manage the ethical challenges inherent in catastrophes.
Dates of Instruction: January 20 - April 28, 2010; Wednesdays, 4pm - 6pm
Location: 127 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Cost: Free for non-academic students
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Concepts in Relational Database Design:
Applications for Public Health
Instructor: Wayne Enanoria, PhD, MPH, Public Health Epidemiologist and Program Director, Epidemiology Preparedness and Informatics Program
Course Description: Course Description: This online course will provide participants with a gentle introduction to creating a relational database. The focus will be on key concepts and practical applications that are independent of any one particular software package used to create relational databases. Computer exercises will emphasize the application of these concepts to practical examples that one may encounter in public health applications.
Dates of Instruction: March 1 – 22, 2010;
Course Lectures Post on Mondays
Location: Online
Cost: Free
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Fall 2009
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Swine Flu Resources
For information regarding the current Swine Flu Outbreak visit the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/.
Pandemic Influenza "Just In Case" Curriculum
For Information about the JIC Curriculum click here.
To view the JIC Curriculum please click here.
CIDER Lecture Hand Hygiene in Context
Sue Chen, MPH, Infectious Disease Branch, California Department of Health Services
Click here for the webcast or visit our webcast page at www.idready.org/webcasts for more information.
Other Links
UC Berkeley University Health Services
Announcements
CIDER OFFERS TRAININGS AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TO LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS
CIDER provides specialized education and trainings, development and facilitation of mandated exercise activities, and technical assistance to local and state public health agencies.
For more information, please contact Christine Siador,
Associate Director, at csiador@berkeley.edu or
510-643-4932.
CIDER Summit 2009:
"Advances in the Control and Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases"
Click here for post-conference materials and presentations from CIDER Summit 2009.
Pandemic Influenza
"Just In Case" Curriculum
For Information about the JIC Curriculum click here. To view the JIC Curriculum please click here.
Building Bridges: Public Health and Private Sectors Responding to Pandemic Influenza
Click here for presentations, webcasts and post-conference materials from the CIDER Summer Intensive Program 2007.
CIDER Brochure
For CIDER brochure, click here.