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It’s important to understand how diseases spread in today’s world. It is clear that viruses can travel through the air, and this is why we have had epidemics of various sorts throughout history. In 1874 a measles epidemic swept the United States. By 1915, an outbreak of diphtheria occurred in Philadelphia (a city with a population of about two million people). This was followed by an outbreak of scarlet fever which killed more than daughters who came home from school sick on a hot summer day.

A great deal of attention has been focused on the 1918 flu pandemic because of the number of deaths it caused. Although there were not many deaths, one particular influenza strain proved to be particularly virulent. In 1918, the virus infected 80% of the population of New York City. There are several different strains of influenza circulating around the world at any given time.

Drug Development

The Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Drug Development course at the University of California San Diego has lecture from both facultys. We aim to give access to top people in the field who bring an unprecedented range of expertise on drug development with this course recorded at UCSD. In this course you will learn about the different stages of clinical development, from prototype to market.

You'll learn how to include study design methods in the designs of clinical protocols for…