About this book

This book is designed to accompany the International Field Epidemiology course.

A note about outbreaks

Field epidemiology has an express purpose– stop the outbreak while preserving the most human life as possible. In this way field epidemiology and outbreak response is more of an exercise in engineering. Rigorous scientific approaches and knowns are applied with a clear goal. Research might be conducted, but it is secondary to the objective of stopping the outbreak.