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PART I: DISEASE EMERGENCE AND BASICS Ch 1: Disease Emergence and Re-emergence Ch 2: Concepts of Disease Transmission Ch 3: Disease Transmission Dynamics PART II: MODES OF TRANSMISSION AND TYPES OF DISEASES Ch 4: Respiratory Diseases Ch 5: Zoonotic and Vector-borne Diseases Ch 6: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Ch 7: Gastrointestinal or Food-borne Disease PART III: INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN CONTEXT Ch 8: Behavioral and Cultural Aspects of Infectious Disease Ch 9: Social Dimensions and Health Equity Ch 10: Infectious Diseases and the Environment PART IV: DISEASE CONTROL, ERADICATION, AND EMERGENCE Ch 11: Infectious Disease Outbreak Detection, Investigation and Surveillance Ch 12: Vaccines: Impact, Questions, and Challenges Ch 13: Advances in Disease Control Glossary
Eyal Oren, PhD, MS is the Interim Director of the School of Public Health at San Diego State University. He is a tenured Associate Professor of Epidemiology and a core-investigator at the Institute for Behavioral and Community Health and for many years was a lead infectious disease epidemiologist in one of the largest metropolitan health departments in the United States. He is trained as an infectious disease and social epidemiologist, with expertise in respiratory infections and has worked at the interface of infectious etiologies and chronic disease outcomes. Heidi E. Brown, PhD, MPH is a tenured Associate Professor of Public Health in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on environmental influences on vector-borne diseases and on infectious causes of cancer. In addition to a graduate level spatial epidemiology course and a data analysis and communication course, she has been teaching undergraduate epidemiology since 2013.