CIDER Upcoming Events & Courses
Fall 2010 Courses
To register for the Fall 2010 Courses for academic credit, please register though UC Berkeley. To register for non-academic credit, please fill out the registration form and return to Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness at 1918 University Avenue, 4th floor, Berkeley, California 94704-7350. You may also fax the form to (510) 643-4926.
Class size is limited, so register as soon as possible.
Public Health Preparedness & Emergency Response
Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH
Description: This one semester course is an intensive introduction to public health emergency preparedness and response and covers the following topic areas: the role of public health in disasters, natural disasters and severe weather, intentional mass threats (CBRNE), detecting and monitoring public health threats, post-disaster sampling, surveys, rapid needs assessments, public health emergency incident management system, emergency operations planning and exercises, infectious disease emergency readiness, environmental health emergency readiness, mental health emergency readiness, special needs and vulnerable populations, essentials of public health leadership during a disaster, essentials of crisis risk communication, essentials of investigating outbreaks, disaster medicine and mass casualty care, and personal and community disaster preparedness
Date/Time: August 31 – November 30, 2010; Tuesdays, 10am – 12pm
Location: 127 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Applied Epidemiology Using R
Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH
Description: This is an intensive, one-semester introduction to the R programming language for applied epidemiology. R is a freely available, multi-platform (Mac OS, Linux, and Windows, etc.), versatile, and powerful program for statistical computing and graphics (http://www.r-project.org). This course will focus on core basics of organizing, managing, and manipulating epidemiologic data; basic epidemiologic applications; introduction to R programming; and basic R graphics.
Date/Time: August 30 – November 29, 2010; Mondays, 2pm – 4pm
Location: 127 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Click here for the CIDER Fall 2010 Course Flyer.
Click here for the CIDER Fall 2010 Registration Form.
Archived Webcasts
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Swine Flu Resources
For resources concerning the current Swine Flu Outbreak visit www.idready.org/h1n1resources.html.
Announcements
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ADVANCED PRACTICE CENTER TO HOLD TRAINING IN BERKELEY
Learn how two new toolkits developed by the SF Bay Area APC can guide and assist your local health department in preparing for and responding to infectious disease emergencies. The training will be held on Thursday, September 23rd in Berkeley, CA.
Click here to learn more.
CIDER SUMMIT 2010
POST-CONFERENCE WEBPAGE AVAILABLE NOW
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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 at csiador@berkeley.edu or
510-643-4932.
Pandemic Influenza
"Just In Case" Curriculum
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CIDER Summit 2009:
"Advances in the Control and Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases"
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CIDER Summit 2007:
Building Bridges: Public Health and Private Sectors Responding to Pandemic Influenza
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CIDER Brochure
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