This minor will provide a more detailed overview of design, method, substantive and analytical issues pertaining to infectious disease epidemiology. It will cover:

• the epidemiology and control of tuberculosis; from a hereditary hypothesis to an infectious one; the evolution over time; the reality of transmission and prevention; control and rate computation; drug resistance and transmission; implications for control;
• the epidemiology of cholera; John Snow and lessons learned; the recent epidemics; waterborne diseases: how do we assess the risk?
• the epidemiology of HIV and AIDS; rates of transmission assessments; individual versus population risk; social networks (assortative, dissassortative); infection versus disease; international reality versus western; the debate about the virus; epidemiology of STI; the sexual networks
• the epidemiology of influenza: what is it; epidemic and variation; the vaccine: production, guess, assessment and risk; the national policies; trends and computations of trends: pros and cons; flu, avian flu, cold: what is it? transportation and flu: social networks.
  

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
30	90	3