PMO 634 Public Health Surveillance
The course includes an overview of public health surveillance, history of surveillance, considerations in planning public health surveillance, sources and collection of data, analysis and interpretation of surveillance data, communication of data, and evaluation of surveillance systems. Civilian surveillance will be examined at the local, regional/state, and federal levels. Military surveillance will be examined at installation, service, and DoD levels. Global health surveillance will be introduced, particularly the application of surveillance towards DoD force health protection.