Best epidemiology Courses Online
We compared 20 Epidemiology courses currently listed on Coursera, edX and Udemy, priced from $29.99 to $129.00. 6 come from a named university or institution, including Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University and University of Alaska Fairbanks. 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.
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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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One Health Epidemiology
Offered by University of Alaska Fairbanks
Learn the principles needed to study the distribution of disease in populations and the factors that influence the health of human and animal populations in this introductory epidemiology course.
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Introduction to Epidemiology
Epidemiology is a unique science - it offers powerful tools to quantify the degree to which risk factors and humanitarian interventions affect population health in a crisis. Indeed, epidemiology saves lives and improves...
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Mastitis epidemiology and diagnostic
Offered by Université de Montréal
Welcome to the Bovine Mastitis MOOCs series! As you know mastitis is a very costly disease on dairies. It is a complex, multi-factorial health problem and, all around the world, a large number of scientists, and their gr...
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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 -
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A Public Health Approach to Hearing Loss and Aging
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
At the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, we are dedicated to training up the next generation of clinicians and researchers to study the impact that hearing loss in older adults has on public he...
$49.00listed price -
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Infectious Disease Modelling
Offered by Imperial College London
Mathematical modelling is increasingly being used to support public health decision-making in the control of infectious diseases. This specialisation aims to introduce some fundamental concepts of mathematical modelling...
$49.00listed price
What the prices here tell you
The 20 priced courses on this page run from $29.99 to $129.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $99.01. 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, edX and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 6 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University and University of Alaska Fairbanks — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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