Foundational Capabilities

Introduction to Public Health Surveillance

This training module introduces public health surveillance concepts and principles for public health workers who have little or no prior training in epidemiology.

Person working on laptop to analyze epidemiological data.

An Introduction to Community Assessment and Data Collection

This course provides an introduction to community assessment, data collection and sharing data findings designed to build competence in data analytics and assessment as well as community engagement.

Community Assessment: Conducting Windshield and Walking Surveys

This course introduces the components of windshield and walking surveys, explains the data collection and analysis process, and discusses how observational data can be used to inform subsequent phases of the community assessment.

View from windshield

Community Assessment: Conducting Focus Groups

This course introduces focus groups as a method to gain valuable community-level data and provide a practical strategy to plan for, conduct, and analyze the results of a focus group.

Woman conducting focus group

Community Assessment: Conducting Surveys

This course introduces concepts and applies knowledge and skills that are essential for planning for and conducting a survey and analyzing and disseminating survey data specifically for the purpose of community assessment.

Survey data on laptop