Trainings and Toolkits
This page provides resources developed by Oregon Health Authority and our partners to enhance communicable disease skills for staff in various settings.
This course is designed for new communicable disease investigators in Oregon. It covers the basics of communicable diseases, reporting requirements for notifiable diseases in Oregon, the use of the Oregon Investigative Guidelines for disease prevention and control, and services provided by the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory (OSPHL).
Who: Local Health Department staff, Tribal Health staff, and environmental health specialists who are new to communicable disease investigation.
Attendance is required for both webinar dates. Please ensure you are able to commit to the following dates and times:
Tuesday, July 9th, 8:30 AM-12:30 PM
Wednesday, July 10th, 8:30 AM-12:30 PM
Please join via your computer, not via phone.
Materials: Participants will be provided with an electronic copy of the slides and exercises.
Course Materials (Coming soon...)
This course focuses on the steps in an outbreak investigation, communicable disease surveillance, descriptive epidemiology, study design, and analytic epidemiology, interviewing and questionnaire development, and taking action during an outbreak.
Who: Local Health Department staff, Tribal Health staff, environmental health specialists, and others who investigate communicable disease
Prerequisite: CD 101 (Please contact Angela Phan at angela.k.phan@oha.oregon.gov if you have not taken CD 101 by July and are interested in taking the course)
Attendance of both webinar dates is required for course completion. Please ensure you are able to commit to the following dates and times:
Monday, August 5th, 8:30 - 12:30 PM
Tuesday, August 6th, 8:30 - 12:30 PM
Please join via your computer, not via phone.
Materials: Participants will be provided with an electronic copy of the slides and exercises.
Course Materials (Coming soon...)
CD 101 is a prerequisite for CD 303.