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In this course, you will learn:
- Understand epidemiologic assumptions, concepts, and measurements.
- Describe the epidemiology study designs.
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of various epidemiological study strategies.
Plan an epidemiology research. - Identify potential causes of bias, confounding, and impact modification in epidemiological studies.
- Use multivariable approaches to analyze epidemiological data.
- Prepare and give an epidemiology presentation.
- Prepare an epidemiological report.
- Prepare a proposal for an epidemiological study.
- Read the epidemiology literature critically.
Syllabus:
- Disease causation and epidemiological hypotheses
- Measures of disease frequency
- case definitions
- incidence and prevalence
- rates and risk
- direct and indirect standardization
- Measures of association
- odds, rate and risk ratios
- rate and risk differences
- population attributable risk
- Study designs
- ecological
- cross-sectional
- case-control
- cohort
- interventional
- community-based
- Bias, confounding and effect modification
- Multivariable analysis
- Logistic, Poisson and binomial regression
- Sample size and power in epidemiologic studies
- Special topics:
- prevention and screening
- molecular epidemiology
- geographic variation in disease occurrence
- health disparities
