DPH810 Advanced Epidemiology in Public Health
The course will allow students to understand the application of survey and research methodology in epidemiology, especially in the community setting. Theoretical aspects will be taught as an integral part of understanding the techniques of study design and community survey. Concepts to be covered include measures of disease occurrence, measures of disease risk, study design, assessment of alternative explanations for data-based findings, and methods of testing or limiting alternatives. Students will be expected to address an epidemiological question of interest to them, first developing the hypothesis and conducting a literature search, then developing a study design and writing, in several stages, a brief proposal for the study. Finally, this course allows students to choose a doctoral project capstone topic, assemble a project committee and begin to focus on the development of the study design with input from the student’s assigned faculty mentor. Students will work on Chapter 1 of their manuscript. This course will include 50 hours of practical immersion experience.
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Online