Resources and Downloads

By Dr. Jay K. Varma
Physician, Epidemiologist, and Public Health Expert

⬇️Slides for download

Detecting and Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks

📚Essential Terms 

📖Glossary of Infectious Diseases and Public Health 

🔗Background reading and case studies

📖Improving infectious disease surveillance in China

📖Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Is Closing Gaps in Disease Detection

📖Zika virus surveillance in New York City

📖Case Study on Detecting Legionnaires Disease Outbreak in New York City

📖How to think about reports of a new disease or cluster of unexplained illness

▶️Is There an Autism Epidemic? 

📖Detecting and Investigating Meningitis Outbreak in New York City

📖Investigating an E. coli O157 outbreak at an Ohio county fair

📖Health Impact Pyramid

📖How Do We Decide What Was “Too Much” During COVID-19 Response”

📖Skills Public Health Officials Needs for Next Pandemic

📖How Public Health Failed in America During COVID-19

📖Developing a Public Health Approach to Hepatitis C in New York City

📖Building Laws and Systems to Prevent Hospital Acquired Infections in Africa