Epidemiology and Ecology of Infectious Diseases
Several international outbreaks of infectious diseases during the last decade have highlighted the need to use a holistic approach to successfully fight and control infectious diseases. This approach embraces biology, infectious medicine, epidemiology, ecology etc. A similar approach is reflected in the One Health concept, which is a strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations in all aspects of health care for humans, animals and the environment.
This post graduate course will use a systemic approach to discuss infections from an epidemiological and ecological perspective, with focus on veterinary medicine.
Examples of topics that will be discussed are infections in ecosystems and how to monitor them, infectious disease epidemiology and modeling, vectors, wildlife and antibiotic resistance in different ecosystems.
The course will be run in March 2013.
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