Description:
This issue of FOCUS offered by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health covers the basics of conducting a traceback investigation, a process used to determine the production and distribution chain of a vehicle implicated as the source of an outbreak.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the basic steps of conducting a traceback investigation
- Identify when it is appropriate to conduct a trackeback investigation
- Provide examples of recent outbreak investigations that have used traceback investigations
PHEP Capabilities:
Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation
Topic:
Epidemiology & Surveillance
Format:
Informational Brief
Time:
40 minutes
Level:
Introductory
University:
University of North Carolina
PERLC:
University of North Carolina PERLC