Health Sciences

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course focuses on the issues associated with the emergence and re-emergence of infectious

diseases and the resulting burden on public health and public health resources. Students study

the processes involved in disease surveillance and mapping and the strategies which, given the

Sustainable Development Goals, may be utilized to reduce the incidence of these diseases.

This course is designed to:

1. Enhance student’s knowledge of the diseases that have emerged in the twenty-first century

and their impact on public health.

2. Increase student’s awareness of the biological, socioeconomic and other factors that

influence the transmission of infectious diseases.

3. Increase student’s appreciation of the importance of surveillance and disease mapping in a

given population.

4. Enhance student’s awareness of the strategies that may be utilized to reduce the incidence

and transmission of infectious diseases as projected in the Sustainable Development Goals.