1 What is special about infectious disease epidemiology?
2 Definitions
3 Descriptive epidemiology
4 Risk, relative risk, and attack rate
5 The case‑control study: odds, odds ratio. The concept of confounding
6 The cohort study: rates. The concept of bias
7 The cohort study: rates. The concept of bias
8 Clinical epidemiology: sensitivity, specificity, misclassification
9 Multivariate analysis and interaction
10 Survival analysis
11 Mathematical models for epidemics
12 Detection and analysis of outbreaks
13 Routine surveillance of infectious diseases
14 Measuring infectivity
15 Studying the natural history of infectious diseases
16 Seroepidemiology
17 The study of contact patterns
18 Methods to decide whether or not an illness is infectious
19 The epidemiology of vaccination
20 The use of subtyping
Biography
Johan Giesecke, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
