Week 3 (2/9/05 - 2/16/05) 

Comment re: Chapter 3: We are skipping Chap 3 (Infectious Diseases). If you are interested in studying infectious disease epidemiology, two options come to mind: (1) Dr. G. will be giving a lecture  called "Intro to Infectious Disease Epi" to the Bay Area Emergency Managers on 4/28/05 starting at 6pm (contact him for information). (2) Chapter 3 is covered in HS161. You may sit in on this section of the class or you may want to be a student teaching assistant when we teach this to the undergraduates.

Lecture: Chap 4: Screening for Disease [.ppt slides]

Activity / Exercise 4.13: Updating The Case Study of Screening for Antibodies to the HIV Update 

• Pair off so you can discuss the case study with a partner 
• The case study starts on p. 98 in the text
• We will begin the updated case study in class
• The case study has been modified to update the sensitivity and specificity of the EIA and WB tests as described in 4.13 
• Answer questions 1 - 10 with the new assumptions provided in 4.13 
• We can discuss the case study on the WebCT discussion board
• Hand in your answers next week

HW

• Read pp. 80 - 94
• EKS Exercises 4.10 (Predicting Tornadoes)
• Complete 4.13 (questions 1 - 10 in the case study)