1 What is special about infectious disease epidemiology?

2 Definitions

3 Descriptive epidemiology

4 Risk, relative risk, and attack rate

5 The case‑control study: odds, odds ratio. The concept of confounding

6 The cohort study: rates. The concept of bias

7 The cohort study: rates. The concept of bias

8 Clinical epidemiology: sensitivity, specificity, misclassification

9 Multivariate analysis and interaction

10 Survival analysis

11 Mathematical models for epidemics

12 Detection and analysis of outbreaks

13 Routine surveillance of infectious diseases

14 Measuring infectivity

15 Studying the natural history of infectious diseases

16 Seroepidemiology

17 The study of contact patterns

18 Methods to decide whether or not an illness is infectious

19 The epidemiology of vaccination

20 The use of subtyping

Johan Giesecke, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden