Risk Factors and Population Health

Harvard HSPH

This course covers the concepts and methods required to estimate the effect of risk factors or interventions on disease outcomes at the population level. The course will cover three major topics of estimating population exposure, determining effect sizes, and estimating the proportional and absolute effects of changes in risk factor distributions on the corresponding disease outcomes. Knowledge of introductory epidemiology and biostatistics is required. Students will work in small groups on a…