How Do We Investigate Outbreaks? Epidemiology: Crash Course Outbreak Science #8

At the heart of outbreaks are people! People are the ones who get sick, transmit diseases, and change the way they live in response to outbreaks. In outbreak science, we can better understand the relationship between people and disease through the discipline of epidemiology. In this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we’ll look at what epidemiology is and how it helps us track the spread of diseases, and even stop outbreaks.

This episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science was produced by Complexly in partnership with Operation Outbreak and the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard—with generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Learn more about epidemiology in this episode of Crash Course Public Health!

Sources:
https://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GBD_report_2004update_part3.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944950/
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/diagnosistesting/index.html
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2018995118
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6349221/