On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Describe the major communicable causes of disease burden, in Australia and internationally, their routes of transmission, risk factors and clinical features.
2. Discuss how causative agents, host and environmental factors interact to produce illness in individuals, and shape patterns of communicable disease in populations.
3. Describe epidemiological methods used to investigate outbreaks of communicable diseases.
4. Describe principles of surveillance, prevention, and control for communicable diseases.

1. Major communicable causes of disease burden
2. Causative agents, routes of transmission, host responses, clinical features
3. Role of individual risk factors and environmental influences
4. Vector- and food-borne diseases
5. Vaccine-preventable diseases
6. Surveillance
7. Outbreak investigations
8. Bioterrorism
9. Communicable disease prevention and control
10. Emerging challenges