Learning outcomes

The students will obtain basic knowledge of specific concepts, activities and methodology in vaccine-related epidemiology.

Contents

The aims and effects of vaccination programme (control, elimination, eradication), key aspects of vaccine-related immunology, the rationale and key components of surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs), the epidemiological principles and methods for the field investigation of VPD outbreaks, methods to measure vaccine coverage and vaccine programme performance including seroepidemiological methods, vaccine efficacy and effectiveness, principles of vaccine adverse events surveillance, introduction to transmission and modelling of VPDs, basic principles of decision-making to introduce new vaccines, and acceptance of vaccines.

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Evaluation

Belongs to following study modules

2017–2018

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

DPIPEF01 Epidemiology and prevention of vaccine preventable diseases