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The Rollins School of Public Health's Hubert Department of Global Health and CDC's Office of Workforce and
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include descriptive epidemiology and biostatistics, analytic epidemiology, epidemic investigations, public health surveillance,
surveys and sampling, Epi Info (Windows version) training, and discussions of selected prevalent diseases. Tuition is charged.
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