Epidemiologic Methods I

Harvard HSPH

The course discusses conceptual and practical issues encountered in the design, conduct, and analysis of epidemiologic studies. We begin with a description of tasks in clinical research: description, prediction, and causal inference. We then introduce the counterfactual conceptualization of causal effects and apply this principle as a framework for understanding epidemiologic methods from a theoretical and practical perspective. The course discusses the conceptual and practical issues…