Epidemiology Courses

Measuring Disease in Epidemiology

808 ratings at Coursera

Calculate prevalence, incidence, odds and risk ratios, attributable risk, and diagnostic test sensitivity and specificity to measure disease frequency, association, and screening programme effectiveness.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Study Designs in Epidemiology

623 ratings at Coursera

Compare epidemiological study designs — ecological, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort, nested case-control and case-cohort, and randomised controlled trials — and pick the best design for a research question.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Validity and Bias in Epidemiology

258 ratings at Coursera

Identify and control threats to study validity: selection and information bias, confounding detection and adjustment, directed acyclic graphs, effect modification, and causal inference in epidemiology.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Utrecht University

Clinical Epidemiology

425 ratings at Coursera

Translate clinical problems into research questions: design diagnostic, prognostic, intervention and etiologic studies, work through the DEPTh model, and appraise randomized controlled trials.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health

27 ratings

Epidemiology is the cornerstone of public health: measure disease frequency, compare study designs, interpret measures of association and confidence intervals, and reason about causality.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Epidemiology in Public Health Practice

4594 ratings at Coursera

Learn core epidemiologic tools to measure population health, assess interventions, work with health indicators, build and analyze surveillance systems, and investigate outbreaks and epidemics.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Career Certificate

Certificate in Epidemiology

Gain the knowledge and specialized skills to prevent disease and promote public health worldwide.

• University of the People
• 7 months
• Self-Paced
• $1,060.00

Public Health in Humanitarian Crisis: Disaster Epidemiology

Apply epidemiology in disaster and refugee settings: run outbreak investigations, build community-based surveillance, design surveys, and handle ethics and community engagement.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Global Disease Masterclass: Communicable Diseases Epidemiology, Intervention and Prevention

191 ratings at Coursera

This course is all about infectious diseases. We’ve selected four disease areas — HIV, Malaria, Emerging Infectious Diseases (Ebola and Zika), and TB — and we will go through each in turn.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Epidemiology for Public Health

1273 ratings at Coursera

Learn to measure disease frequency, compare common epidemiological study designs, and detect and control bias and confounding when designing or critiquing research.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Genetic Epidemiology Foundations

51 ratings at Coursera

Learn to analyze genetic association data: Hardy-Weinberg and linkage disequilibrium, population structure and admixture, genotype quality control and imputation, case-control and family-based designs.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Epidemiology & Biostatistics – USMLE Prep Videos

7 ratings

Medical students learn to measure disease, assess risk, and interpret study data for evidence-based clinical decisions.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

12 ratings at OpenLearn

Explore how antibodies reveal viral infection, use an interactive ELISA to screen SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, and understand vaccine strategies, variants, and epidemic tracking.

• OpenLearn
• 24 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

American Museum of Natural History

Virology and Epidemiology in the Time of COVID-19

57 ratings at Coursera

Learn how viruses are built, classified, and replicate, how immune systems and vaccines fight back, and how epidemiologists model, track, and manage outbreaks like COVID-19.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Essentials of Epidemiology

2 ratings

Learn how clinical trials, cohort studies, and Kaplan–Meier survival analysis support epidemiological research.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video