Congratulations on completing Module 2!

Learning Objectives:

• Create case definitions for an outbreak investigation,
• Describe the purpose and high level process of a food safety investigation,
• List the type of information that should be included in a Public Health Alert,
• Describe routine methods for generating hypotheses,
• List the types of information collected in hypothesis-generating questionnaires,
• Interview cases with a hypothesis-generating questionnaire using proper interviewing techniques,
• Understand how published food frequency patterns can be used to guide hypothesis generation,
• Analyze data from hypothesis-generating questionnaires by comparing them to expected food frequency patterns, and
• Perform descriptive analyses and summarize relevant available information in an epidemiological summary.

Related Tools:

• Case definitions example table
• Public health alert template
• Sources of public health intelligence
• Hypothesis generation tools
• Enteric questionnaire repository
• Interview script examples
• Binomial probability calculation tool for food exposures
• Pivot tables exercise
• Epi curve exercise
• Epi curve exercise – Data set
• Epidemiological summary template

Related Reading:

• Communication and coordination
• Public health partners
• Weight of evidence
• Case finding
• Laboratory methods and surveillance
• Case definitions
• Analytic studies
• Questionnaire design
• Case interviewing
• Data management
• Hypothesis generation
• Descriptive epidemiology
• Epidemiological summaries
• Epidemic curves

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