Courses Details
EPID600: Introduction To Epidemiology
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall, Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez (Residential);
- Offered Every Fall
- Prerequisites: Current SPH Student
- Advisory Prerequisites: None
- Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
- Description: This is an introductory Epidemiology course that is required for Epidemiology MPH students and offered as an elective to others. This course provides students with in-depth foundations of epidemiologic theory and practice. The course will cover conceptual and practical issues around the design and conduct of epidemiologic research and the analysis and interpretation of data.
- Syllabus for EPID600
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | EPID | General Epidemiology | MPH | Describe population patterns of health-related risk factors and health-related outcomes in terms of person, place, and time | EPID600, EPID602 | EPID | General Epidemiology | MPH | Compare the relative strengths and weaknesses of common epidemiologic study designs (e.g., cross-sectional, cohort, case-control, randomized experiments) | EPID600, EPID602 | EPID | General Epidemiology | MPH | Interpret the impact of bias, confounding, and effect modification on causal inference in epidemiologic research | EPID600, EPID602 | EPID | General Epidemiology | MPH | Critically evaluate epidemiological findings from published research studies | EPID600 |
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