To register for the summer course, please register through UC Berkeley Summer Sessions at http://summer.berkeley.edu.
Course Dates: July 28 - August 8, 2008

Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Course Description:
This 2-week intensive course will cover the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to conduct an epidemiologic field investigation, including: essential concepts for the prevention and control of microbial threats; the epidemiologic approach and steps to public health action; steps to conducting an outbreak investigation, conducting a cause investigation; conducting a case investigation; conducting an analytics study; field survey design and implementation; operational aspects of conducting a field investigation; and analysis of outbreak modules using a computer laboratory. The computer lab component will emphasize basic analysis and interpretation. Students will be introduced to R, an open source program for statistical computing and graphics. Students will be attending 3 hours of lecture in the mornings, and 3 hours of computer laboratory in the afternoons. Students will be expected to complete 2 to 3 hours of required reading and preparation in the evenings. The total workload is about 45 hours per week.
Dates of Instruction: July 28 - August 8, 2008; Monday - Friday 9am - 12pm; 1pm - 4pm
Location: 2326 Tolman Hall (Lecture); 212 Wheeler (Lab); UC Berkeley Campus
Cost: $540.00 plus registration fees
Participants should register through UC Berkeley Summer Session.
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To register for any of the fall courses, please fill out the registration form (available through the below link) and return to Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness at 1918 University Avenue, 4th floor, Berkeley, California 94704-7350. You may also fax the form to (510) 643-4926.
Courses Begin: August 27 and end December 10, 2008. Course dates may change; please refer to the course syllabus for more information.
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Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Disease & 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: August 27 - December 10, 2008; Tuesdays, 12pm - 2pm
Location: 2311 Tolman Hall, UC Berkeley, Campus
Cost: Free for no credit
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Instructor: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Disease & 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, and 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: August 27 - December 10, 2008; Tuesdays, 10am - 12pm
Location: 2304 Tolman, UC Berkeley Campus
Cost: Free for no credit
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