VP 516/CHLH 516 Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Course Outline - Spring, 2006, Tu, Th 10:00-12:00, VMBSB 2506

Date

Speaker/Leader

Topics and Readings

Th, January 26

Uriel Kitron

Introduction and overview   
Student presentations - disease choice
Disease assignments - spring 2000,   Spring 2002,    spring 2004
 Infectious Agents readings
Epidemiology review readings

Th, Feb 2
U. Kitron

 

Ecological background
Ecology readings
Assignment of homework 1 - SIR model
Tu, Feb 7
Students
Ecology of Infectious Agents - Exercise
Th, February 9
U. Kitron
Routes of Transmission - Readings
Outbreak investigation - Homework II
Tu, February 14
Students

Routes of Transmission - Exercise
Th, February 16

U. Kitron

Surveillance/Control- Readings
Tu, February 21
Students
 Exercise: Surveillance & Control
Th, February 23

 

Tony Goldberg

  Evolutionary Epidemiology        
Evolutionary Epidemiology readings Presentation slides
Tu, Feb 28
U. Kitron
 Economic & Socio-political Issues
Readings - part 1

Th, March 2

U. Kitron

Economic & Socio-political Issues Readings - part 2 , Assignment of Homework III 

Tu, March 7

Students

U. Kitron
Exercise: Economic, & Socio-political
Issues
Vector-borne diseases - Readings
Lecture slides

Th, March 9
Uriel Kitron

Malaria - Readings

Tu, March 14

No class

Th, March 16

Connie Austin,  IDPH
Infectious Disease outbreaks in Illinois
10 steps in an outbreak investigation

Tu, March 21

SPRING BREAK

 

Th, March 23

SPRING BREAK

 

Tu, March 28

Nohra Mateus

 Wildlife Diseases - Readings   
Th, March 30
R. Cortinas
 Lyme disease & a study of tick-borne diseases in the Midwest - Readings,     Lyme risk study

Tu, April 4

  Linn Haramis, IDPH

 Surveillance for arboviruses   
Readings
Th, April 6
U. Kitron
 Schistosomiasis & helminths - Readings  

Tu, April 11

Robert Smith

Modeling infectious diseases
Wed, April 12 - 12:00
Ricardo Gurtler, University of Buenos Aires Eco-epidemiology of Chagas Disease 

Th, April 13


6 p.m., Illini Union

U. Kitron


Jonathan Patz
University of Wisconsin

GIS/Spatial Analysis - Readings


          Deforestation and Climate 
        effects on Infectious Diseases

Th, April 13 - Fr, April 14
Guest Speakers
 New and Re-Emerging Infectious Disease Conference

Tu, April 18

Liz Estoff    





Erin Rochelle

Toxoplasmosis :
More than meets the eye
Readings:
1. CDC website, 2. Flegr et al.,
3. McAllister et al.

Anthrax and Bioterrorism
Readings: 1. Hughes & Gerberding, 2002
2. Jenignan et al 2002, Turnbull et al 1999

Th, April 20

Whitney Zahnd



Sangeeta Rao

Chickenpox and Immunization
Readings:
1. Hambleton & Gershon, 2005
2. Control ommunicable Diseases pp. 94-99

Foot and Mouth Disease -
from endemic to epidemic
Readings:
1. APHIS 2002, 2. Kitching 1999

Tu, April 25


Imelda Moise
Regine Rucker

HIV: "the Houdini of Viruses"
1. Ecology of HIV,
2. Clinical perspective of HIV/AIDS
(read up to"Natural History of Untreated HIV Infection" section
3. Global rates of disease
(click on HIV/AIDS Link)
4. Socioeconomic impacts of HIV/AIDS

Th, April 27

Scott Loss




Hillery Boyden

Don't Drink the Water: Ecology and Epidemiology of Cryptosporidiosis
1. CDC Fact sheet
2. Account of the 1993 Milwaukee outbreak

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
BSE Background -1. FAO, 2. CDC
3. Prions Background

Tu, May 2

 Luigi Bertolotti