VP 516/CHLH 516              Tu, Th 10:00-12:00 (starting Jan. 26)           2506 VMBSB

U. Kitron, 2830 VMBSB, 4-6221; ukitron@uiuc.edu

The objective of this course is to teach the principles of infectious diseases epidemiology and control.
Selected diseases will be used to demonstrate these principles.

This course provides an opportunity for students who have taken a basic epidemiology course, such as
VP 350, VP 417 and CHLTH 374, to study in more depth the epidemiology of infectious diseases.
It is especially suitable to epidemiology/preventive health students in the College of Veterinary Medicine
and Epidemiology students in the Department of Community Health.

Principal topics covered:

Review of general epidemiology and infectious agents
Ecology of disease
Modes of transmission
Surveillance and control
Sociopolitical and economic impacts on infectious disease
Emerging and re-emergeing diseases
Evolutionary epidemiology
Spatial epidemiology and analysis
Modeling of infectious diseases
Outbreak investigation
Selected diseases:
  Including malaria, Lyme disease , arboviruses (arthropod-borne diseases)
Zoonoses, enteric diseases, AIDS
Schistosomiasis and helminthic diseases
Student presentations and discussions

The class will meet for 3-4 hours a week for discussions on reading material provided a week earlier.
Most meetings will be led by the instructor with students discussing application of material covered in the readings.
Guest speakers will address specific applied topics. The final meetings will be devoted to student presentations of
specific diseases which will be prepared under the supervision of the instructor.

Grading will be based on participation in discussions, class presentations
and a final 15-20 page paper on the topic of presentation.

Required textbook:            
Chin J (Editor). 2000.   Control of Communicable Diseases in Man.
17th edition. American Public Health Association. Washington, D.C.

In addition, for each meeting, a packet of material will be made put on reserve
by the instructors or the students making the presentations.

Recommended :   
Acha  P.N. & Szyfres, B. 1987. Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals.
2nd. Ed. Scientific Publication No. 503, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C.
The newer edition does not have the life cycle diagrams, but is probaly the only one available.

There are many other text books around. These older ones were useful in the past

Giesecke Johan. 1994. Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Oxford University Press, New York

Martin SW, Meek AH, Willeberg P. 1987. Veterinary Epidemiology. Iowa State University Press, Ames.

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