Graduate Prerequisites: SPH EP 714 or SPH PH 717 - This course provides students with a fundamental understanding of the epidemiology and control of vaccine-preventable diseases. This will be accomplished by focusing on a different vaccine-preventable disease each week, and using that disease to illustrate epidemiologic principles and methods to measure vaccine safety, efficacy, and impact; and to understand current issues around public acceptability. Vaccines examined in depth include those for Measles, Rubella, Pneumococcus, COVID, Chicken Pox and Rotavirus. Emphasis is placed on study design, sources of bias, and current controversies. The majority of class time is focused on in-class discussions where students take turns presenting to their peers. The course gives students experience in the critical review of epidemiologic studies in this area.

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