Introduction to Epidemiology

Public health epidemiologists track diseases to figure out what caused them, how they are spread, and who is affected and at risk. You will learn the importance of “time, place, and person” to epidemiologists and go through the steps they take to investigate diseases and other public health outbreaks to keep them from spreading.

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