Courses Details
EPID608: Environmental Epidemiology
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Alexis Handal (Residential);
- Offered Every Winter
- Prerequisites: Epid 600 or 503, Biostat 553 or 503
- Description: This course will serve as an introduction to topics in environmental epidemiology, covering major areas of current inquiry in this field. It will convey the basic tools required to critically read the literature and to develop appropriate study designs in light of intended applications. The class meeting will include lectures and student-led discussions. This course will review epidemiologic methods used in evaluating the health effects of physical, biological and chemical agents in the environment and the available evidence on the health effects of such exposures. We will also consider policy and public health applications of the scientific evidence. Topics include lectures on methodology and major environmental exposures, discussions based on review and critiques of current literature, and presentations by outside experts on specific environmental epidemiology issues of current interest. After taking this course, students should have a better understanding of the scope, limitations, applications and future of environmental epidemiology.
- This course is cross-listed with EHS 608 in the Environmental Health Sciences department.
- Syllabus for EPID608
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | EPID | Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology | MPH | Design an epidemiologic study of an environmental or occupational factor and a health outcome that tests one or more specific hypotheses | EPID608 |
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