EDDi - Welcome Tutorial (Supplementary Material)

EDDi - Epidemic Disease Detective

Summary:
Building on a problem-based self-study approach, EDDi participants will be introduced to the principles and practices of infectious disease epidemiology as well as concepts related to the investigation of disease outbreaks, with particular focus on:

1. Describing infectious disease events and evaluating local outbreak scenarios
2. Learning about basic methods of epidemiological outbreak investigation, study designs, and tools of epidemiology (e.g., epidemiological curves, outbreak maps, technical terms)
3. Interpreting and recognizing associations between outbreak events and relevant influencing factors by applying basic techniques of infectious disease epidemiology (especially descriptive methods)
4. Making informed decisions in outbreak investigation based on epidemiological evidence
5. Extra: Getting to know the structure of the German disease surveillance and reporting system as well as background information on the Hanseatic city of Hamburg

Welcome Tutorial:
This Welcome Tutorial is an interactive PowerPoint presentation and offers an insight into the basics of epidemiology as well as the gameplay of the EDDi Serious Game. It can be used in the context of both the EDDi Paper Manual and the EDDi Serious Game.

Workflow
The presentation integrates an interactive design. Start the presentation on your computer and follow the instructions by clicking on buttons and materials.

Please note
The presentation contains embedded links to video-based learning materials on epidemiology. Clicking on the element will redirect you to the third-party provider (YouTube).

Extra: EDDi Artwork Table Top Exercise
Artwork by Annabell Koenen-Rindfrey, licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
The artwork was developed using Affinity Designer 1.9.9 (iPad version).

If you would like to revise, rewrite, or build a new narrative upon this case study, all materials are available under an open license.