Introduction to Disease Control Epidemiology

Overview

Delivery method

Online

Duration

8 hours

Audience

Employees

Description

This online course will provide field operations staff (veterinarians and inspectors in terrestrial and aquatic animal health and meat hygiene), basic training in applied epidemiology for disease investigations. The course will present information on epidemiological principles, techniques and tools to be understood and used by CFIA field operations staff in the completion of thorough epidemiological investigations. This will ensure data collected can be interpreted and utilized correctly for the analysis and management of a disease incident/outbreak. This course is considered a prerequisite for more advanced training in epidemiology.

The course is divided into five modules. Each module has a review exercise to reinforce the material covered.

Module 1: Introduction & Descriptive Epidemiology - The Role of Epidemiology in CFIA Animal Health Investigations and Decision Making

Estimated time: 90 min.*

Module 2: Applying Epidemiological Concepts in CFIA Animal Health Investigations of Regulated Diseases

Estimated time: 60 min.*

Module 3: An Overview of Sampling – Why do we do it?

Estimated time: 90 min.*

Module 4: Data Collection and Communication

Estimated time: 45 min.*

Module 5: Tools to Conduct Effective Animal Health Investigations of Regulated Diseases

Estimated time: 120 min.*

*Please note that the estimated times provided are only meant as guidelines. The time required to complete each module will depend on the individual learner and their familiarity with the basic principles.

Legacy course code: 00060921 , 00060922