1. What is epidemiology? -- 2. Measuring health and disease -- 3. Types of studies -- 4. Basic biostatistics: concepts and tools -- 5. Causation and epidemiology -- 6. Epidemiology and prevention: chronic noncommunicable diseases -- 7. Communicable diseases: epidemiology surveillance and response -- 8. Clinical epidemiology -- 9. Environmental and occupational epidemiology -- 10. Epidemiology, health policy and planning -- 11. First steps in practical epidemiology.