The course's purpose is to prepare epidemiology students for their thesis work. Required for epidemiology majors. Research design and analysis are not the primary focus of the course, but methodological issues are considered when pertinent to the interpretation of findings. I Covers a wide variety of topics in epidemiological methodology. Topics will include basic epidemiological measures, confounding, misclassification, selection bias, types of case-control studies, Berkson's bias, matching, and estimation of epidemiological parameters.
Students work with infectious diseases of national and international interest.
This course will provide training in the investigation, control, and prevention of hospital acquired infectious diseases and other hospital events by the use of appropriate epidemiologic techniques, both descriptive and analytic. This course reviews designs and measurements used in epidemiological studies and demonstrates that the design and analysis of an epidemiological study is determined by its objectives. It also demonstrates that the Leblancian Plan of Action approach provides for the collection of complete and accurate data consistent with study objectives and allows the investigator to maintain control of the study. This course will introduce students to systematic applications of epidemiologic methods and approaches in population-based studies of the impact of human genetic variation on health and disease. Human genome epidemiology includes the spectrum of population studies on gene discovery, characterization of the burden of disease and gene-environment interaction, and evaluation of the impact of genetic tests and services on reducing morbidity and mortality.