Going Viral

Interview with Dr. William Schaffner, who is the current Medical Director and past President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases as well as a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. We discuss the importance of vaccines, the evolution and history of vaccine development, and the future of vaccine technology.

Let's learn about how vaccines are designed, developed, and distributed!

Let's review the concepts we learned with a case study to conclude our first season!

Let's learn about measures of association - risk ratio, rate ratio, and odds ratio!

Let's learn about natality frequency measures - crude birth rate and crude fertility rate!

Let's learn about mortality frequency measures - crude death rate, cause-specific death rate, infant mortality rate, and maternal mortality rate!

Let's learn about morbidity frequency measures - incidence and prevalence!

Let's learn about the main frequency measures - ratios, rates, and proportions!

Let's learn about the various types of experimental analytic studies - clinical trial, community trial, and randomized control trial!

Let's learn about the various types of observational analytic studies - cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies!