Textbooks

Epidemiology

Epidemiology is an openly licensed text designed for medical degree–seeking clinical students without a prior background in public health. Using sports medicine and injury prevention examples and applications, it aims to provide students with the basics of epidemiology terms and concepts and is intended to guide medical school students as they prepare for the USMLE Step 1 Exam and to transition from student to clinician.

InTechOpen: Public Health

Collection of books published by InTechOpen related to public health. Topic covered include accident analysis and prevention, environmental factors, maternal and child health, and evaluation of health services. Chapters CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licensed.

Plague diaries: firsthand accounts of epidemics, 430 B.C. to A.D. 1918

Small collection of primary documents discussing epidemics from the past aimed to highlight similarities with past outbreaks and modern ones, including COVID-19. Includes introductions, glossaries, and questions. Primary documents public domain with all additional content licensed CC BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) license.

Foundations of Epidemiology

Introductory epidemiology textbook for public or allied health students. It covers epidemiologic thinking, causality, incidence and prevalence, public health surveillance, study design, measures of association, random error and bias, confounding and effect modification, and screening. CC BY-NC (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial) license.

Journals

Global Health Action

Courses

Ophthalmic Epidemiology OER – Part1. Basic Principles

Discover the key concepts of epidemiology for eye care, explore the causes and distribution of visual impairment in populations, learn about key epidemiological study designs and assess their strengths and limitations for studying eye disease.

Materials from the course are published under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA-4.0) which permits non-commercial re-use without asking for permission. We encourage you to download, adapt and share these Open Educational Resources (OER) for teaching and learning.

Audiovisuals

The Transmission of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and Influenza: Lessons from the Past and How We Should Be Preparing for the Future

Dr. Marc Lipsitch, Ph.D, an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health

Human Migration, Malaria & Modernization in the Pacific: DNA Studies

The research of J. Koji Lum focuses on the origins, interactions, and resulting genetic characteristics of Pacific Island populations, the evolution of the malaria parasite's (Plasmodium falciparum) drug resistance, malaria epidemiology in Melanesia, Southeast Asia, and Africa, forensic genetics, animal and plant domestication, behavioral genetics, and molecular evolution.

softwares

Epi Info