Permission of instructor required. Using infectious, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases as models, molecular and genetic techniques are discussed and applied toward understanding environmental and genetic factors in the development of complex diseases in populations. Review of major issues in cardiovascular disease epidemiology, summarization of relevant pathology and analogies of population determinants, and strategies for prevention. Three lecture hours per week. Provides epidemiology majors with supervised experience in teaching and course preparation.
Students act as assistants in departmental courses.
Two to eight seminar hours a week. Contemporary findings, methodologic issues, and research recommendations in cardiovascular epidemiology. Topics include risk factors, trends, interventions and health care. Students critique research and participate in a field research. Three lecture hours per week.