HAI Surveillance and Applied Epidemiology Course

Name: Advanced HAI Surveillance and Applied Epidemiology Course
Availability: InStock

Turn case definitions, denominator data, rates, signals, line lists, and epidemic curves into defensible prevention decisions.

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Accra, Istanbul, Rome, Nice, Manama, Paris and more
Next session: 1 – 5 November 2026, Accra
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Advanced HAI Surveillance and Applied Epidemiology Course is a one-week advanced course for infection preventionists, epidemiology personnel, surveillance officers, public health practitioners, quality analysts, and healthcare professionals, who leave with an HAI Surveillance and Investigation Pack. The course connects healthcare infection case definitions, infection surveillance denominator data, HAI rate and trend analysis, and healthcare outbreak signal verification to prevention decisions. Agile Leaders Training Center presents HAI surveillance and applied epidemiology across healthcare settings.

Who Should Attend

Teams responsible for healthcare-associated infection surveillance
Personnel responsible for hospital epidemiology and outbreak assessment
Functions responsible for public health surveillance and response
Teams responsible for healthcare quality and infection data
Managers responsible for surveillance reporting and prevention feedback

The course assumes practical experience with infection prevention, epidemiology, or healthcare data and excludes bedside diagnosis, treatment decisions, and regulatory reporting authority.

Departments and Industries

The course supports organizations that collect, analyze, interpret, and act on healthcare infection information.

Hospital infection prevention and epidemiology functions
Ambulatory and long-term care quality teams
Public health surveillance and response services
Diagnostic laboratory and health-information interfaces
Academic, research, and healthcare improvement units

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply surveillance objectives and case definitions consistently
Evaluate numerator, denominator, exposure, and data-quality controls
Analyze incidence, prevalence, rates, trends, and comparisons
Build signal-verification, line-list, and epidemic-curve tools
Compare descriptive and analytic epidemiology options
Prioritize findings, feedback, and prevention actions

Course Agenda

Day 1: Surveillance Design and Case Definitions

Surveillance Objective and Scope Charter
Healthcare Infection Case Definition Decision Guide
Case Finding Source and Ascertainment Map
Inclusion, Exclusion, and Classification Record
Surveillance Governance and Responsibility Matrix

Day 2: Denominators, Data Quality, and Rates

Numerator and Denominator Specification Sheet
Patient-Time and Device-Exposure Data Plan
Surveillance Data Validation Checklist
Incidence and Prevalence Calculation Workbook
Rate Comparison and Interpretation Guardrail

Day 3: Signals and Descriptive Epidemiology

Baseline and Expected-Occurrence Review
Infection Signal Verification Decision Tree
Case Line List Variable Dictionary
Time, Place, and Person Analysis Grid
Epidemic Curve Construction and Reading Method

Day 4: Investigation, Analysis, and Feedback

Outbreak Investigation Question Framework
Hypothesis and Exposure Comparison Matrix
Analytic Study Design Selection Guide
Control Measure and Continuing Surveillance Tracker
Surveillance Report and Prevention Feedback Template

Day 5: Surveillance and Epidemiology Practice

Suggested Exercise: Case Definition Application
Suggested Exercise: Denominator and Rate Validation
Suggested Exercise: Line List and Epidemic Curve Analysis
Suggested Exercise: Signal and Investigation Decisions
Capstone Exercise: HAI Surveillance and Investigation Pack

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities with fictional hospital, ambulatory, long-term care, and public health surveillance data.

Suggested activity: classify cases and document evidence, exclusions, and unresolved data.
Suggested activity: validate denominator sources, calculate measures, and interpret rate changes.
Suggested activity: organize a line list and describe cases by time, place, and person.
Suggested activity: verify a signal, frame hypotheses, select an analysis, and plan feedback.

FAQs

Who should attend advanced HAI surveillance and applied epidemiology training, and what does it assume?

Infection prevention, epidemiology, surveillance, public health, quality, and healthcare data personnel should attend; the course assumes experience with infection information or prevention work.

How does HAI surveillance differ from a general infection prevention course?

HAI surveillance focuses on case definitions, systematic case finding, denominators, data quality, measures, signals, trends, investigation evidence, and feedback rather than the full range of operational prevention precautions.

How are healthcare infection surveillance rates made comparable?

Comparability requires consistent definitions, observation periods, populations, exposure denominators, data sources, validation rules, calculation methods, and contextual interpretation of changes in case finding or service activity.

How is a healthcare outbreak signal verified?

Verification checks the case definition, data completeness, duplicates, laboratory or record changes, expected occurrence, time-place clustering, exposure patterns, and alternative explanations before escalating an investigation.

What do line lists and epidemic curves contribute to applied epidemiology?

Line lists organize case variables for review, while epidemic curves display occurrence over time; together they support descriptive analysis, hypothesis development, case finding, exposure review, and response monitoring.

Conclusion

Participants leave with an HAI Surveillance and Investigation Pack containing scope tools, definition guides, denominator plans, validation checks, rate workbooks, line lists, epidemic curves, investigation matrices, and feedback templates. The pack connects surveillance evidence to defensible action. It helps teams separate routine variation, data artifacts, and signals requiring investigation.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Rome	Week 08, 2027 22 – 26 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
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Doha	Week 09, 2027 7 – 11 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500
Marbella	Week 10, 2027 14 – 18 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Barcelona	Week 11, 2027 15 – 19 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
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Amsterdam	Week 12, 2027 22 – 26 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
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Amman	Week 14, 2027 11 – 15 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Dubai	Week 16, 2027 19 – 23 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Munich	Week 16, 2027 19 – 23 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Madrid	Week 17, 2027 26 – 30 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Athens	Week 18, 2027 3 – 7 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,700
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Chicago	Week 19, 2027 16 – 20 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewAdvanced HAI Surveillance and Applied Epidemiology Course is a one-week advanced course for infection preventionists, epidemiology personnel, surveillance officers, public health practitioners, quality analysts, and healthcare professionals, who leave with an HAI Surveillance and Investigation Pack. The course connects healthcare infection case de…

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HAI Surveillance and Applied Epidemiology Course