EPIDEM 160

Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

Epidemiology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Comprehensive introduction to the full scope of the epidemiology of monitoring, preventing, controlling, and even eliminating or eradicating infectious diseases, including a study of the tools of epidemiology applied to develop and implement public health infectious disease prevention and control programs.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

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