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

Concentration Competencies that EPID600 Allows Assessment On

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
EPID	Clinical Research-Epidemiology	MS	Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of study designs (e.g., cross-sectional, cohort, case-control, randomized experiments) and the appropriate measure of association for a given study design	EPID600
EPID	Clinical Research-Epidemiology	MS	Describe the causes of random and non-random error in research studies, including information bias, selection bias, and confounding	EPID600