Overall, a really good, easy to understand introductory course. I just wish that week 6 had extra content instead of just a short goodbye message.

Awful. I couldn't get past the first quiz because It Included Information from Week 2 and some of the answers weren't even correct or didn't correlate with the curriculum. POOR POOR POOR

Today I have completed this course. The subject is not new to me. I had attended few workshops on the subject. I always considered the subject as important but relatively dry. This impression originated from my mind set that lots of Maths are associated with statistics and epidemiology.After attending this on line course, I am quite comfortable with my present understanding. I could not make out the syllabus pertaining to 5th and 6th week.With the scope for expansion ,I wish more examples and illustrations are incorporated in this course.However, I have learnt and enjoyed while staying in this course. I express my gratitude to the learned instructors of this course and the creators of the `Coursera`.

We continue to learn.

Regards.

Absolutely tremendous course for those interested in research! This course helps to make one familiar with the scientific terms which we came across regularly in medical literature. Great Job!

I started thinking this would be a boring course, but then quickly realised how interesting the study of Epidemiology is. Very well worth the time!

Amazing course for beginners! It encompasses everything for a jump-start in Epidemiology as a career! Totally worth it!

Great overview of scientific methods of epidemiological studies. I would have loved more advanced material to be available, and maybe discussion questions to guide the forums.

It's good and informative but it was so difficult at week 3's quiz. Thanks.

Videos and materials are fine, but insufficient for the quizzes, which are apparently very difficult even for PhDs in the field.

The course is for beginners. But their Quiz section is really tough. Specially first 3 week are very tough.

I would like first of all to thank for the opportunity to do the course.

It has been my first experience attending in online course in English until the end.

On one end it tells you how good and well prepared are the lesson, which are definitely reflecting the Qualifications of the instructors. I definitive appreciated the way the lesson were being conducted, the assessment method including the additional resources for reading.

On the other hand, I felt as if instructors were absent in the forum discussion, it could be due to the period I am taking the lesson, maybe the course is overdue and the instructors are no longer there. Also, I saw students sharing the answers for the quiz, that in my opinion it is never good for the students.

All in all, I am delighted to have completed this useful course and I am sure it will help me in my carrier. I recommend you to keep supporting us as usual so that health problems can be well addressed in mid long term, especially in underdeveloped countries such as Mozabique, my country.

Valdemiro

An amazing course! I can't recommend it enough. It was not too long, you could spread out the workload. Most importantly, the concepts were so well explained with examples throughout and the teachers did not go too fast. I learnt so much and I will be revisiting the notes and materials in the future. If you are new to epidemiology or want to refresh your basic understanding on the topic, this course is for you. The quizzes throughout the videos and at the end of each week were great. To improve, maybe have explanations for each question so that you know why you got it wrong (and maybe the correct answers highlighted if you are struggling). A final quiz/ assessment at the end testing everything one has learnt could be a great indicator to see how much you really know. Thank you!

Soy médico veterinario y desde mis años de estudiante la salud pública ha sido el área de mayor interés, que me ha motivado a adentrarme en el estudio más profundo y especializado y la epidemiología, siendo la base de la salud pública, es el motor de mi curiosidad profesional. Creo que este es el punto de partida para seguir perfeccionando mis conocimientos y poder así llegar a ser un epidemiologo de tomo y lomo y con ello poder optar a tener una carrera como tal y formar parte de los cambios en la salud publica de mi país. Agradecida por este desafiante punto de inicio, espero poder crecer en el campo de la epidemiología y utilizar todo lo que aquí aprendí en un futuro cercano.

Thanks for this excellent course. I am a doctor and in 2012 I have completed my MPH in Epidemiology from BSMMU, Bangladesh but for some reasons I have a gap in last 4 years in my career and recently I have started working with an Epidemiologist in NUI Galway,Ireland and looking for something which would help me to remind all those things I had learnt 4 years back. This course works like a magic. Now I got my memory back. Both teacher are very kind and they tried to make it easier for all which made this course fascinating .

Best wishes for all...

Dr. Sabrina Zarin

Hi all

I found this course to be very helpful. The videos were exceptional and notes easy to read and understand. I hope that I am going to pass this time as this course (Introduction to Epidemiology) is one of my core courses that I need to pass for my Master of Public Health studies at UCT in Cape Town.

Thank you very much. Everything is highly appreciated and looking forward to learning more from this platform.

Who knows I might join your university in few years to come.

Thank you and keeping helping us, especially working students.

Muchos de los profesionales sanitarios hemos aprendido, bien en las Facultades, bien como parte de nuestra formación continuada, los conceptos básicos de Epidemiología. En este curso no solo se pueden aprender conceptos nuevos, sino afianzar los conocimientos previos y adquirir soltura en el manejo de los diferentes términos y métodos. Los exámenes son duros, lo cual hace que el aprendizaje por aprendizaje de los errores sea aún más efectivo. "Yo creía que sabía Epidemiología", desde luego que después de este curso sé un poquito más.

Studying epidemiology offers critical insights into how diseases spread, the factors influencing health conditions, and effective prevention strategies. It equips you with the tools to analyze health data and identify patterns and risk factors, which is essential for developing targeted interventions. This knowledge not only helps in tracking and controlling disease outbreaks but also plays a key role in shaping evidence-based public health policies and improving overall health outcomes.

This is a great course, which I think is aimed toward casual learners or beginners to entice them into pursuing the field further. The strength of this course is that it nicely summarizes the concepts that other institutions take an entire Coursera Specialization to tackle. After taking the course, those who are interested should enroll in more comprehensive courses (either in Coursera/other platforms or in academic institutions) to enrich their epidemiology knowledge to practical use.

Thank you very much for a really good and educative course ! I enjoyed every minute of it .It was not so easy and it was not so difficult. The course demanded a real effort to be put in , watching the videos more than once , reading the extra material and going over the quizes multiple times before getting a pass! I enjoyed it and I am really thankfull and gratefull for this learning oppurtunity ! Very much recommended!

Lorraine Alexander

This a very interesting and enlightening course. thanks to Professor

Lorraine Alexander and Dr Karen Yeatts. the 5 weeks course is broad as expected and i have gained knowledge in Epidemiology definition, use of epidemiology in public health and how epidemiology supports improving the public. i have also learnt the history of epidemiology and how to apply the population perspective to an understanding of the global burden of health outcomes and disease.

Splendid! I am a Biology major in my senior year, and this is really helpful to wrap it all up as to how to do research and paper stuff thoroughly. Very straightfoward and well packed, be video transcript or video slide it proved I worried for nothing as a deaf student in my first Coursera class. Complex tests, and I did better with my Words of these though. Thank you very much, everyone who has involved in this especially Dr. Karin Yeatts and Dr. Lorraine Alexander.

This is the first course that I learned in Coursera. This perfect course for me, a total stranger about epidemiology student. I got a lot about epidemiology that ccould help me to understand medical literatures. Also for a student whose English is not good, it was also the opportunities to improve my English. I want to thank the University of North Carolina and the two perfect Professor, also to Coursera. And I think I have fall in love with this website.

THE VIDEOS ARE SO WELL EXPLAINED AND INTRESTING. WHEN I STARTED THIS COURSE, I FELT UNINTRESTED BUT AS I CONTINUED IT GOT INTRESTING AND NICE. THIS COURSE IS GREAT FOR THOSE INTRESTED IN PUBLIC HEALTH BUT DOES NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY IT. THANK YOU TO LORRAINE ALEXANDER, KARIN YEATTS, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, GILLINGS SCHOOL OF GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND COURSERA FOR GIVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE ACCESS TO THIS COURSE .

Thank you very much for offer this course of epidemiology which is a tool very important for understanding of public health concepts and for compression and design of epidemiologic studies , the slides was very easy of understanding, i am very grateful with COURSERA and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health. I hope that follow offering courses of Medicine. Thank you very much.

I had been looking for a course that gives an overview of the field of epidemiology with some lectures on the basic tools needed to understand epidemiological studies. I am glad that I chanced upon this course. I thoroughly enjoyed the course primarily because it is well structured, and the instructors were clear in their lectures and the presentations as well as reading material was comprehensive. I would definitely recommend.