Foundations of Epidemiology and Public Health

Graduate / Professional

This course presents an introduction to epidemiologic definitions, concepts, and methods. Topics include history of epidemiology, descriptive epidemiology and burden of disease, measurement of disease frequency and association, study design (ecologic, cross-sectional, case-control studies, cohort, intervention, public health surveillance and programs), selection and information bias, confounding, effect modification, measurement validity and screening, random variation and precision, and causal inference. This course also covers skills for quantitative problem-solving, understanding epidemiologic concepts in the published literature, and key developments and readings in the field of modern epidemiology. TTh 8:30am-9:50am