Courses Taught by Ana Baylin

EPID625: Controversial topics in the role of nutrition on chronic disease

Graduate level
Residential
Winter term(s) for residential students;
3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
Instructor(s): Ana Baylin (Residential);
Prerequisites: EPID 600 or EPID503 AND BIOSTAT 501 or BIOSTAT 521
Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
Description: This public health-oriented course will provide students the opportunity to advance their knowledge in nutrition and chronic disease research from a population perspective and help them to better interpret epidemiologic studies on nutrition and chronic disease.
This course is cross-listed with EPID625/NUTR626 in the Epidemiology and Nutritional Sciences department.
Syllabus for EPID625

Graduate level
Residential
Winter term(s) for residential students;
2 credit hour(s) for residential students;
Instructor(s): Ana Baylin (Residential);
Last offered Winter 2014
Not offered 2024-2025
Prerequisites: EPID601 or similar
Description: This is a methodology course which focuses on the historical evolution of methods (e.g., study designs) and concepts (e.g., confounding, bias, interaction and causal inference) that constitute today's epidemiology. The course will also include a brief history of Public Health and history of the Department of Epidemiology at Michigan.

Graduate level
Residential
Fall term(s) for residential students;
2 credit hour(s) for residential students;
Instructor(s): Ana Baylin (Residential);
Prerequisites: EPID 503 or 600 or EPID 601 or PUBHLTH512; (C- or better)] and [BIOSTAT 501 or 521; (C- or better)]
Description: This course is designed for Master and PhD students in the Department of Nutritional Sciences who are interested in conducting or better interpreting epidemiologic studies on nutrition and disease. The course will review methodological issues involved in the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of studies investigating the relationship between diet and disease.

Concentration Competencies that NUTR624 Allows Assessment On
Department	Program	Degree	Competency	Specific course(s) that allow assessment
NUTR	Nutritional Epidemiology	PhD	Assess the primary strengths and weaknesses of different methods to collect nutrition information at the population level, including sources of error and approaches to reduce error	NUTR624
NUTR	Nutritional Epidemiology	PhD	Apply methods of nutritional epidemiology for the evaluation of diet/disease relationships	NUTR624
NUTR	Nutritional Interventions	PhD	Identify the primary strengths and weaknesses of the different methods that can be used to collect nutrition information	NUTR624

Graduate level
Residential
Winter term(s) for residential students;
3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
Instructor(s): Ana Baylin (Residential);
Prerequisites: None
Advisory Prerequisites: Encouraged to have some introductory knowledge of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
Description: This public health oriented course will provide students the opportunity to advance their knowledge in nutrition and health research from a population perspective and help them to better interpret epidemiologic studies on nutrition

Graduate level
Residential
Winter term(s) for residential students;
3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
Instructor(s): Ana Baylin (Residential);
Prerequisites: None
Advisory Prerequisites: None
Description: This course will introduce research methods to 1st year MS and PhD students. Students will develop their own research proposals, engage in the process of peer review, and present their final proposals to the class. Students will also learn data cleaning and management skills and write a data analysis plan.
Learning Objectives: 1. Develop a framework for understanding nutrition and public health research 2. Critically evaluate nutrition research 3. Formulate a scientific research question and relevant hypotheses for a given topic 4. Conduct a review of the literature 5. Understand the components of a research manuscript and styles of scientific writing 6. Practice the art of peer review and providing constructive feedback 7. Develop the major components of a research proposal 8. Develop a data analysis plan 9. Apply data cleaning and management skills to large datasets

Graduate level
Residential
Fall, Winter term(s) for residential students;
1-6 credit hour(s) for residential students;
Instructor(s): Dana Dolinoy, Kendrin Sonneville, Karen Peterson, Peter Mancuso, Andrew Jones, Ana Baylin, Olivia Anderson, Susan Aaronson, (Residential);
Prerequisites: None
Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
Description: This course will be used by faculty members to teach special topics related to Nutritional Sciences.