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HLTH 443Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases

Units
0.50
Faculty
Health
Subject
Public Health Sciences

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

This course introduces the basic methods for communicable disease epidemiology and discusses important infectious diseases, including their history, ecology and current public health significance. The course focuses on epidemiological methods in infectious disease research, prevention, and control, such as outbreak investigations, disease surveillance, case-control and cohort studies, laboratory tools, molecular epidemiology, dynamics of transmission, and assessment of vaccine field effectiveness. A range of communicable diseases will be discussed including respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, bloodborne diseases, and vector-borne diseases.

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Must have completed the following:
      • HLTH333 - Principles of Epidemiology (0.50)
    • Must have completed at least 1 of the following:
      • HLTH335 - Introduction to Statistical Analytics in Health (0.50)
      • STAT316 - Introduction to Statistical Problem Solving (0.50)
    • Students must be in level 4A or higher
    • Enrolled in H-Health Sciences, or H-Public Health

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Reviewed on UW Flow

63% liked it83% easy67% useful

From 8 ratings and 2 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Took in Winter 2026. The class was pretty easy: Two assignments (10% and 15%), a Midterm (30%), a reflection (15%) and an exam (30%). No memorization needed for the midterm or exam, as you can prep answers ahead of time and bring them in.
    As long as you go to class, you'll know enough to be able to change your answers on the fly (e.g. if you prepped an answer for pathogen A, but the question asks about pathogen B).
    Assignments fairly easy. If you're every not sure about something, just shoot the prof an email and she usually clarifies things pretty well.
    Attendance is basically mandatory; if you don't go to class the midterm/exam are quite hard. You can shift the exam weight to the…

    Apr 2026 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Probably the most fun I've had in a course throughout all of undergrad lol. Content was easy to follow along and you didn't have to really memorize anything as long as you kept up with content.

    Jul 2023 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

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