EPID 6311 Applied Epidemiology for Public Health

3 SCH. This course is intended for practitioners in epidemiology, and students in epidemiology and related disciplines that rely heavily on epidemiologic methods and reasoning in academic setting, federal agencies with public health related missions, state and local public health agencies, and health care organizations. This course focuses on areas of public health practice in which the systematic application of epidemiological methods can have a large and positive impact. It describes how best to apply traditional epidemiological methods for determining disease etiology to real life problems in public health and health services research. The course embodies advanced competencies in public health practice and illustrates concepts, strategies used in epidemiologic studies, ethics, principles, and methods generally useful in the surveillance and epidemic investigations, bio-emergency response, basic study designs, measures of disease frequency and association, bias, confounding, causal inference, data analysis, and reporting of epidemiologic results.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade

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