ActivEpi Web is moving!

At 6pm EDT on Monday, August 18, 2025, we will be relocating to a new subdomain. All accounts and progress within the course will be transferred to the new site. Check back here on Monday to see the new domain name.

   

 

ActivEpi Web is an electronic textbook for teaching epidemiology and available free on-line. This unique instructional tool can be accessed using the link: http://activepi.herokuapp.com.

ActivEpi Web features:

• 15 lessons (chapters), each with several activities.

Topics covered in most introductory epidemiology texts:

  • study designs, measures of frequency and effect, potential impact,validity (selection, information, and confounding biases),interaction/effect modification, analysis of 2x2 tables, control of variables, stratified analysis, matching, introduction to logistic regression.

A full range of learning activities:

  • Narrated instructional expositions that use video and/or animation
  • Interactive study questions within expositions
  • Interactive short quizzes
  • Exercises using computer software to analyze data
  • Homework exercises with solutions available to instructors only

Materials for the Instructor:

  • PowerPoint presentation lecture materials
  • Homework exercises and exam questions
  • Answer files to homework exercises and exam questions available only to instructors
 


Dr Kleinbaum (CDC/EIS) comedy skit