This session emphasizes descriptive epidemiology using data collected during outbreak investigation. We will be answering what information do we collect during outbreak investigation to build towards developing a hypothesis that we can use to implement control measures or conduct research?

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
– Use the categories of Who, Where, What, When to characterize an outbreak.
– Manage outbreak information coming such as making a line list.
– Name the ways that data is organized to address these categories.
– Describe how to include qualitative data into field investigations.
– Describe how an epi curve is made and what it can tell us about an outbreak.