Public Health Surveillance and Disease Tracking

Participants can register for this two-day workshop using the online registration form.

Target Audience

MDs, RNs, PAs, NPs, and EMTs, first responders, hospitals, clinics, health departments, emergency medical services, extended care facilities, HRSA entities, and emergency preparedness planning partners.

This course is not currently scheduled.

Course Description

This course is about disease surveillance, a tool to learn about the ongoing patterns of disease occurrence and the potential for disease in the population. Accurate surveillance allows public health staff to be effective in investigating, controlling and preventing disease in the population.

Participants will learn how epidemiologists identify cases that merit further investigation, and how epidemics (outbreaks) are identified. Participants will also learn the basic concepts of surveillance and risk factor identification and will examine how surveillance resources are prioritized.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

Define public health surveillance.
Describe the process of conducting public health surveillance.
List three different types of surveillance.
Describe three uses of surveillance data.
Explain the essential role of the health care provider in disease surveillance.