What's New
New MIDAS Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics Established at HSPH
…led by ID-Epi’s Professor Marc Lipsitch. The new center will focus on mathematical modeling of drug resistance, seasonal infectious diseases, and intervention allocation.
Click here or on the MIDAS link to the left for more details. Also, please stay tuned as the Center gets up and running and new staff come on board.
Check out this year's changes to the ID-Epi Interdisciplinary Concentration, including new courses added!
For 2009-10 only, because of limited required courses offered, 1st and 2nd year Master's students may substitute a primary elective for a required course.
To increase your options, three new courses have been added to the ID-Epi primary electives, and one Nutrition course added to secondary electives for this academic year. Professor Marc Lipsitch is bringing back the previously cancelled EPI502 (Biology and Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance) during the winter session! (See the concentration form for a complete listing of courses).
Course description for EPI502 (Winter session):
Biology and Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance
1.25 Credits
Lectures, Seminars. Three 2-hour sessions each week.
This course will cover concepts and issues in bacterial antibiotic resistance relevant to epidemiologic research in this field. The student will obtain understanding of the significance of the problem, the biology and mechanism of antibiotic resistance, risk factors for spread and measures to prevent this emerging problem. We will specifically assess different research designs and strategies used to measure the magnitude, risk factors and prevention measures, and their interpretations.
Each session will consist of three components: (1) review of biological mechanism of resistance (2) a presentation of specific issue and related controversies, (3) brief student presentations that will discuss the con's and pro's for different methods, designs and interpretations.
Students will be required to give presentation and/or prepare a written paper discussing one of the issues.
1.25 Credits
Lectures, Seminars. Three 2-hour sessions each week.
This course will cover concepts and issues in bacterial antibiotic resistance relevant to epidemiologic research in this field. The student will obtain understanding of the significance of the problem, the biology and mechanism of antibiotic resistance, risk factors for spread and measures to prevent this emerging problem. We will specifically assess different research designs and strategies used to measure the magnitude, risk factors and prevention measures, and their interpretations.
Each session will consist of three components: (1) review of biological mechanism of resistance (2) a presentation of specific issue and related controversies, (3) brief student presentations that will discuss the con's and pro's for different methods, designs and interpretations.
Students will be required to give presentation and/or prepare a written paper discussing one of the issues.
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