Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases and Public Health Surveillance — High Specialty Treaty

Public Health and Epidemiology · Clinical Bases

How it begins

A comprehensive and systematic treatise on pathogen population dynamics, mathematical modeling of infectivity, analytical architecture of global surveillance systems, and rapid response protocols for international biosafety outbreaks and emergencies.

What it covers

1. Introduction and Principles of the Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases
2. The Ecological Triad and the Chain of Infection: Pathophysiology of the Pathogenic Encounter
3. · The dynamic interaction of three forces
4. · The Chain of Infection
5. Mathematical Modeling of Transmission: The Basal ($R_0$) and Effective ($R_e$) Reproduction Number
6. · The Basal Reproduction Number ($R_0$)
7. · The Effective Reproduction Number ($R_e$ or $R_t$)
8. Herd Immunity and Critical Vaccination Thresholds
9. · Collective Physiological and Immunological Foundation
10. · Calculation of Herd Immunity Threshold ($P_c$)
11. Pathophysiology of Tissue Invasion and Dynamics of Pathogen Load
12. · The Kinetics of the Viral/Bacterial Load and the Window of Infectivity
13. · Tissue tropism and immunopathogenesis
14. Taxonomy and Classification of Biological Agents of Clinical Interest
15. Transmission Mechanisms: Aerodynamic, Fomite and Vector Dynamics
16. · Transmission by Droplets versus Aerosols (Wells Dynamics)
17. · Vector Transmission: Biological vs. Mechanical
18. Infection Periods: Temporal Intervals and Their Importance in Control
19. · Definition and distinction of critical intervals
20. Space-Temporal Patterns: Dynamics of Outbreaks, Endemics, Epidemics and Pandemics
21. Public Health Surveillance: Historical Evolution and International Legal Frameworks
22. · Modern Definition and Conceptual Evolution
23. · Global Legal Frameworks: The International Health Regulations (IHR / IHR)
24. Types of Surveillance I: The Operational Spectrum of Passive and Active Surveillance
25. Types of Surveillance II: Sentinel, Syndromic Surveillance and Epidemiological Intelligence
26. · Sentinel Surveillance
27. · The wastewater-based epidemiology revolution
28. Attributes of Surveillance Systems: Evaluation of Methodological Quality
29. Case Definitions: Standardization of Operative Diagnostic Criteria
30. · The Hierarchical Classification of the Surveillance Event
31. Investigation of Epidemic Outbreaks: Systematic Steps of Field Epidemiology
32. · The CDC Field Response Protocol
33. Epidemic Curves: Interpretation of the Temporal Dynamics of Propagation
34. · Geometric Analysis of the Distribution of Cases
35. Genomic and Molecular Epidemiological Surveillance: The Phylodynamics of Transmission
36. · From Classical Epidemiology to Genomic Surveillance by Sequencing
37. · Lineage Monitoring and Immune Escape
38. Emerging and Reemerging Pathogens: The Determinants of Disruptive Zoonosis
39. · Definition and Classification of Threats
40. Global Syndemic: HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis: The Synergistic Immunopathological Interaction
41. · The Concept of Syndemic
42. · Integrated Surveillance Strategies
43. Severe Acute Respiratory Infections: Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance
44. · Integrated SARI and ILI Surveillance
45. Vector-Transmitted Diseases: Arboviruses, Malaria and Ecological Complexes
46. · Critical Arbovirosis: Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya
47. · The Ecology of Malaria
48. Enteric and Water Transmitted Diseases: Pathophysiology of Toxigenicity
49. · Cholera and the Dynamics of Drinking Water
50. · Typhoid Fever and the Healthy Carrier
51. Global Impact Zoonoses: One Health Dynamics in Rabies, Brucellosis and Leptospirosis
52. · The One Health Paradigm
53. Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) and the Eradication Paradox
54. · Measles as a Coverage Indicator
55. · The Paradox of Polio Eradication
56. Health Care Associated Infections (HAI) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
57. · Pathophysiology of nosocomial colonization
58. · Antimicrobial Resistance as a Public Health Emergency
59. Travel Medicine, Global Migration and International Biosecurity
60. · Transport Speed vs. Incubation Period
61. Screening, Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests and Biases in Epidemiological Studies
62. · Analysis of Internal Validity of Screening Tests
63. · Critical Biases in Communicable Disease Studies
64. Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change and Future Frontiers of Epidemiology
65. · Predictive Modeling of Deep Neural Networks