PHPS40200

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the module students will have:
1. Understood key concepts in infectious disease epidemiology and public health prevention and control strategies;
2. Applied epidemiological methods to the investigation and management of outbreaks
3. Understood surveillance, the characteristics of different surveillance systems, their strengths and weaknesses, and their application to disease control, the International Health Regulations and notifiable diseases;
4. Examined the issues involved in managing and evaluating vaccination programmes; understand the appropriateness and effectiveness of different vaccines or strategies
5. Understood the important aspects of antibiotic resistance development and prevention
6. Understood communicable disease control strategies for vulnerable, marginalised, and at-risk populations, and to propose alternative strategies;

Indicative Module Content:

• Communicable disease concepts
• Surveillance (national and international)
• Management of outbreak of food poisoning
• Vaccination
• Sexually transmitted infections/HIV
• Respiratory infections
• Vectors and vector borne diseases
• Health care associated infection
• Emerging and re-emerging infections
• Infectious disease modelling

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Assessment Strategy

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

When using generative AI tools, you must do so in a way that upholds academic integrity. The work you submit must be your own. The UCD academic integrity policy (https://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/t4media/Academic_Integrity_Policy.pdf) prohibits students from representing work as their own that they did not write, code or create. Accordingly, submission of AI-generated content without explicit permission and attribution is not allowed. Students are expected to properly acknowledge the use of generative AI in each aspect of their submitted work. If in doubt about how AI is allowed to be used during their studies, students should discuss this with the module organiser and/or programme director.