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What Is Epidemiology in Public Health?
Intended Audience
Public health nurses and other front-line public health workers who have not had epidemiological training and who would like an overview of epidemiology.
Format
Web-based, Flash presentation. This online module has an audio narration and interactive exercises and scenarios. This module should take about 45 minutes to complete.
Co-provider
This course is co-provided by the University of Washington School of Nursing.
The University of Washington School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Participants who successfully complete the course are eligible to receive a certificate for 0.75 contact hours for a processing fee of $35.
Module Instructor
Victoria Holt, PhD, MPH, RN
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
University of Washington
Technical Notes
This module requires certain software and browser plugins to be installed. See our Technical Requirements page for details.
The module may load slowly, depending on the speed of your Internet connection. Individual pages may also occasionally load slowly. You may find it helps to speed up the loading if you click the title of a page in the title list on the left side of the screen.
If the words on the screen or title list are too small, you can try to increase their size by expanding the browser to fill the entire screen, or you can change your screen resolution. (Refer to Windows Help for directions on changing your screen resolution.)
Supplemental Material
If you would like to obtain a print copy of the audio narration before beginning the module, download the module transcript below.
