Teaching:

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
 - 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 , schistosomiasis,
   arboviral diseases, zoonoses and wildlife disease, enteric diseases, HIV/AIDS
 - Student presentations and discussions

Spatial Epidemiology
 - Patterns of health and disease in place and time
 - Application of geospatial technologies and methods for epidemiology
 - Analysis of time-space relations
 - Clusters and diffusion of disease
 - Geographical epidemiology of selected infectious and noninfectious diseases.

Epidemiology and the Media
 - Seminar course based on presentation by instructor, guests and students of
   current epidemiological topics followed by class discussions.
 - Presentations generally originate from accounts in the popular media combined
   with information from the original scientific communications.

GIS Workshop
The workshop combines lectures and computer exercises to understand and use important spatial tools and methods, including the ArcGIS software and global positioning systems. These tools help you to measure and visualize the spatial pattern of diseases and can provide key insight into the processes related to those patterns.

Workshops have been conducted at the University of Illinois, the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in Nairobi and Diani, Kenya.

Recent Talks
Iowa 2/2/07