University of California, Berkeley

CIDER Upcoming Events & Courses

Summer 2009

"Advances in the Control and Epidemiology of

Emerging Infectious Diseases"

August 3-4, 2009

Sheraton Gateway Hotel

Burlingame, CA

Early Bird Deadline Ends July 10th

Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the essential areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) and UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness. UCSF is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The CIDER Summit 2009 is a 2-day educational conference co-sponsored by the California Association of Communicable Disease Controllers, California Department of Public Health, and University of California, San Francisco, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

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Field Epidemiology Training
Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Course Description: CIDER will be hosting a post-conference training entitled "Field Epidemiology" August 5-7, 2009, following the 2-day conference. This intensive course will cover the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to conduct an epidemiologic field investigation.

Dates of Instruction: August 5-7, 2009 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location: CIDER, 1918 University Ave., 4th Fl. (at Martin Luther King, Jr. Way), Berkeley, CA 94704

Cost: $395

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For a tentative syllabus please click here.

Introduction to R
Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Course Description: This training will introduce students to R, an open source program for statistical computing and graphics, in a 2 day intensive program emphasizing basic analysis and interpretation.

Dates of Instruction: August 19-20, 2009 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location: UC Berkeley Campus in Room 212 Wheeler

Cost: $250

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Fall 2009

To register for the fall courses for academic credit, please register though UC Berkeley. To register for any of the fall courses for non-academic credit, please fill out the registration form (available through the below link) 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.
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Public Health Preparedness & Emergency Response

Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Course 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.

Dates of Instruction: September 1- December 8, 2009; Tuesdays, 10am- 12pm
Location: 127 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Campus Cost: Free for non-academic students

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Applied Epidemiology Using R

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 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.

Dates of Instruction: September 1- December 8, 2009; Tuesdays, 12pm- 2pm
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: 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. Please note that this is a free, non-academic class.

Dates of Instruction: October 5,13,19,26, 2009
Location: Online Course Cost: Free for non-academic students

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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.

Announcements

Please click here for available courses for Fall 2009.

Click here for the Fall 2009 Registration Form.

2009 UPCOMING CONFERENCES
NACCHO - National Association of County and City Health Officials Annual Conference
July 29 - 31, 2009
Orlando, FL
Click here for more information

ASTHO - Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Annual Conference
October 7 - 10, 2009
Vienna, VA
Click here for more information

CIDER OFFERS TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TO PUBLIC HEALTH

CIDER provides specialized education and trainings, development and facilitation of mandated exercise activities, and targeted 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.

Click here for CIDER brochure

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.

REDI-US Study

Participants: Click Here!