Jul 31, 2025  
2023-2026 Academic Catalog 
    
2023-2026 Academic Catalog

MPH 7013 - Advanced Epidemiology


This course will cover advanced concepts of Epidemiology that arise in the planning, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiologic research studies. Topics will include measures of disease occurrence, measures of association between exposures and outcomes, bias, confounding, interaction, stratification and adjustment, multivariate analysis, indices of validity and reliability and reporting epidemiologic results. Lectures and assigned readings will be combined with practical exercises involving simulated epidemiologic studies in which students will analyze and interpret results from data sets, using different software programs (SPSS®, Epiinfo®, SPSS®).