Approximately 55 mins to complete
Earn a record of completion
Audio recording + long-form content format
Course Overview
The module examines public health surveillance within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and examines how surveillance works in a public/private health care system.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of these five modules, the self-study participant should understand the critical role public health epidemiology plays in the governmental response to infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. The course should also convey a basic knowledge of specific disease infection rates (R) and why the R controls—or should control—the public health policy response.
Module 1: Some Public Health Surveillance Basics
Module 2: Global Health Surveillance
Module 3: U.S. Public Health Surveillance
Module 4: Do Health Surveillance Systems Work
Module 5: Surveillance Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
About the Instructor
William Pilkington was a local public health officer for four decades. Currently he works at North Carolina Central University, an HBCU, doing research on racial disparities in health care. Pilkington holds an M.A. in Security Studies from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) at the Naval Postgraduate School, completed the CHDS Executive Leaders Program, and was a Founding Scholar in the CHDS Advanced Thinking in Homeland Security (HSx) Program. Pilkington also holds a D.P.A. and M.P.A. from the University of Southern California.