Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

3 credits

Research approaches in environmental and occupational epidemiology via didactics and discussion, lab exercises, and paper critiques. Main topics: climate change, outdoor air pollution, metals, environmental justice, built environment, energy transition, and occupational health. Emphasizes study design, confounding, selection, and information biases; exposure and risk assessment; geospatial methods; social determinants; and the exposome. Prerequisite: either EPI 511, or EPI 512 and EPI 513, or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with EPI 570.