Emerging Infections of International Public Health Importance

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MODULE 1:  
The Paradigm of Emergence

1.  Overview of Surveillance and Emerging Infections
Ann Marie Kimball,  MD, MPH Readings

2.  Antibiotic Resistance
Carrie Horwitch,  MD, MPH Readings

3.  Travel and Emerging Infections
Elaine Jong,  MD Readings

4.  Trade and Emerging Infections
Ann Marie Kimball,  MD, MPH  Readings

 
MODULE 2:  
Current Challenges in Infectious Disease

 New Agents
1.  HIV and AIDS
Helene Gayle,  MD, MPH Readings

2.  Prion Diseases
Christina Marra,  MD Readings

3.  New Sexually-transmitted Diseases
King Holmes, MD, PhD Readings

 Highly-infectious Agents
4.  Influenza
Kathy Neuzil,  MD Readings

5.  Tuberculosis
Carrie Horwitch, MD, MPH Readings

 Common Exposures
6.  Food-borne Infections
John Kobayashi,  MD, MPH Readings

7.  Vector-borne Diseases
Duane Gubler,  ScD Readings

 
MODULE 3:  
Public Health Response

1.  Bioterrorism:  Alert and Response
Col. Patrick Kelley,  MD, DrPH Readings

2.  Describing Place:  Geographic Information Systems
Dick Hoskins,  PhD, MPH Readings

3.  Vaccine Initiatives and Institutional Structure 
Mark Kane,  MD Readings

4.  World Health Organization:  Outbreak Verification and Response
David Heymann,  MD Readings


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