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Nadia's Wednesday, two ways

8 lessons · 24 prompts

A day in the life of an Epidemiologist: what changes with these prompts.

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Nadia is a state health department epidemiologist who tracks respiratory illness.

Nadia starts Wednesday with a county flu table that has several weeks of counts by age group. She opens Claude and uses the Understand Disease Data prompt to explain the rate changes and flag rows where counts look too high for the population. The AI points to a likely reporting delay, and she checks the source notes.

Next she uses the Prepare And Clean Data prompt in ChatGPT to plan how to recode missing vaccination status and write a short data dictionary. She keeps the original file untouched and saves the cleaning steps for her team.

After lunch, a school outbreak needs a situation report. She uses the Monitor Outbreaks prompt in Gemini to organize absentee data by grade and draft a plain-language summary. She edits the wording, adds the date of onset, and sends it to the health officer.

With the time she saves, Nadia calls two school nurses to confirm symptoms and updates the parent letter using the Advise And Present prompt. She leaves at 5:30 instead of 7, picks up her daughter from choir, and still has energy for a walk.

Before

  • Tables open in five tabs before coffee
  • Cleaning notes live in three files
  • Outbreak reports wait until late afternoon
  • Policy messages get rushed at day's end

After this course

  • One prompt frames the data question
  • Cleaning plan is written before edits
  • Outbreak report drafts start by noon
  • Policy briefs get a calm final read

What you'll learn

  • Explain Disease Measures: Use AI to explain rates, ratios, and tables in plain language.
  • Draft Study Documents: Create and refine protocols, questionnaires, and analysis plans.
  • Plan Data Cleaning: Map recoding, missing values, and documentation before you start.
  • Read Disease Patterns: Ask AI to help interpret trends by time, place, and person.
  • Choose Statistical Methods: Compare methods and draft reproducible analysis steps.
  • Organize Outbreak Reports: Sort outbreak data and draft situation reports during an investigation.
  • Write Research Reports: Draft abstracts, manuscripts, and reports with AI support.
  • Advise and Present: Turn findings into policy briefs, risk messages, and talks.

How this course works

  1. 8 lessonsOne task of your job each, from understand disease data to advise and present.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.