INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Calculate and interpret measures of health used to characterize morbidity and mortality in populations. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify features of epidemiologic study designs, their strengths and limitations, and measures of association used to determine the relation between exposures and outcomes of interest. Audience: Graduate 3. Describe major sources of bias and confounding in epidemiologic research, and how they can be addressed. Audience: Graduate 4. Evaluate causal inferences between risk factors and health. Audience: Graduate 5. Identify and interpret the presence of interaction between multiple risk factors in relation to an outcome. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Calculate and interpret measures of health used to characterize morbidity and mortality in populations. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify features of epidemiologic study designs, their strengths and limitations, and measures of association used to determine the relation between exposures and outcomes of interest. Audience: Graduate 3. Describe major sources of bias and confounding in epidemiologic research, and how they can be addressed. Audience: Graduate 4. Evaluate causal inferences between risk factors and health. Audience: Graduate 5. Identify and interpret the presence of interaction between multiple risk factors in relation to an outcome. Audience: Graduate