15 Best Epidemiology Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Epidemiology courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $49.00. 5 come from a named university or institution, including Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University and University of Copenhagen. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $49.00 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "epidemiology" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Epidemiology for Public Health
Offered by Imperial College London
Thousands of new epidemiological studies are conducted every year and their results can have a profound impact on how we live our lives. Decisions regarding the food you eat, how much you exercise, where you live and wha...
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Study Designs in Epidemiology
Offered by Imperial College London
Choosing an appropriate study design is a critical decision that can largely determine whether your study will successfully answer your research question. A quick look at the contents page of a biomedical journal or even...
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Drug Development and Pharmacoepidemiology
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
Pharmacoepidemiology is a scientific discipline that uses epidemiological methods to evaluate the use, benefits and risks of drugs, devices and biologicals. It focuses on observational research methods that use data whic...
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Epidemiology in Public Health Practice
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This specialization is intended for people working or aspiring to work in the field of public health at the local, regional, and national level. Over five courses taught by faculty from the preeminent school of public he...
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Virology and Epidemiology in the Time of COVID-19
Offered by American Museum of Natural History
This course covers the science and social impacts of viral infectious diseases. We will begin by covering the basics: what a virus is, the structural and functional diversity of viruses, and how viruses use our bodies an...
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Air Pollution – a Global Threat to our Health
Offered by University of Copenhagen
We all have to breathe to live. But the air we breathe is polluted both outdoors and indoors. Each year, this pollution costs 7 million lives across the globe – and a lot of suffering. 1 in 8 deaths is due to air polluti...
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Tobacco & Nicotine: Public Health, Science, Policy, and Law
Offered by University of Michigan
This course provides a strong foundation in the history of smoking and other tobacco and nicotine use; the individual and public health impact; tobacco use prevalence trends in adults, youth and key subpopulations; and h...
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Global Disease Masterclass: Global Disease Distribution
Offered by Imperial College London
The Global Diseases Masterclass is part of the full-degree Masters of Public Health that the School of Public Health. By the end of this specialisation, our aim is that students will be able to critically apply epidemiol...
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Infectious Disease Modeling in Practice
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
Mathematical modeling is an increasingly widespread tool for understanding infectious disease transmission and informing public health decision making. This course provides an in depth overview of the practical uses of m...
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Global Disease Masterclass
Offered by Imperial College London
The Global Disease Masterclass specialisation aims to provide students with an overview of core health challenges and lines of epidemiological research being undertaken, across a range of infectious and non-communicable...
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History of Medical Cannabis
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This History of Medical Cannabis course is designed to have you think critically about past, present, and future research on the health effects of cannabis by developing a more nuanced understanding of the barriers to re...
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Global Sodium Reduction Strategies
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This course will help guide policy makers, advocates, and program managers as they design, plan, and implement sodium reduction interventions to protect public health. We invite you to see what interventions have been pr...
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Foundations of Public Health Practice
Offered by Imperial College London
This specialisation will enable you to reflect on and cultivate the behaviours you require to become an effective public health professional –whether as an academic, practitioner, clinician, manager or leader.The special...
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Interventions and Calibration
Offered by Imperial College London
This course covers approaches for modelling treatment of infectious disease, as well as for modelling vaccination. Building on the SIR model, you will learn how to incorporate additional compartments to represent the eff...
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How Vaccines Work
Offered by Imperial College London
This course describes the underpinning science around vaccines and their development. It will look at the immunological underpinnings of how vaccines induce protection. It will also look at the epidemiological basis of h...
$49.00listed price
Best Epidemiology Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Epidemiology for Public Health | Coursera | Imperial College London | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Study Designs in Epidemiology | Coursera | Imperial College London | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Drug Development and Pharmacoepidemiology | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Epidemiology in Public Health Practice | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Virology and Epidemiology in the Time of COVID-19 | Coursera | American Museum of Natural History | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Air Pollution – a Global Threat to our Health | Coursera | University of Copenhagen | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Tobacco & Nicotine: Public Health, Science, Policy, and Law | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Global Disease Masterclass: Global Disease Distribution | Coursera | Imperial College London | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Infectious Disease Modeling in Practice | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Global Disease Masterclass | Coursera | Imperial College London | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | History of Medical Cannabis | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Global Sodium Reduction Strategies | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | $49.00 | View → |
| 13 | Foundations of Public Health Practice | Coursera | Imperial College London | $49.00 | View → |
| 14 | Interventions and Calibration | Coursera | Imperial College London | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | How Vaccines Work | Coursera | Imperial College London | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $0.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 5 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University and University of Copenhagen — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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