Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC third-edition self-study course on applied epidemiology and biostatistics. Eighteen lessons take you from disease occurrence and frequency distributions through surveillance, outbreak investigation, analytic studies, and public health surveillance systems.
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