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"The field of infectious disease epidemiology has been front-and-center for the past few years. With the COVID-19 pandemic, an opportunity arose to provide "armchair epidemiologists" with a deeper understanding of the population-level impacts of infectious diseases, and the tools available to control them. This field has its own unique culture and set of tools and rules. We will utilize a whole new vocabulary in this book, from how to consider transmission-with the idea of a disease reproductive rate-to how disease is dispersed or clustered, and to how to design a study. As the reader will see, infectious disease epidemiologists seek to learn who is sick, why they are sick, and when and where they became sick"--

Introduction to global health / Lisa V. Adams, John R. Butterly, and Hoiwan Cheung -- Global health : systems, agencies, organizations, and other Stakeholders / Lisa V. Adams -- Brief primer of infectious diseases : humans, their environment, and evolution / John R. Butterly -- Epidemiology and infectious diseases : introduction and early perspectives / John R. Butterly -- Epidemiology of infectious diseases : global perspective / Lisa V. Adams -- The basic necessities of life : nutrition, water, and sanitation / John R. Butterly -- Loud emergencies I : HIV/AIDS / Lisa V. Adams -- Loud emergencies II : tuberculosis / Lisa V. Adams -- Loud emergencies III : malaria / John R. Butterly -- Silent emergencies : what Is killing our children? / John R. Butterly and Tyler Hartman -- Antibiotic resistance and infection control / John R. Butterly -- Pandemic influenza : from basic biology to global health implications / Elizabeth A. Talbot -- Epilogue : diseases of affluence / Lisa V. Adams and John R. Butterly