30-606 Epidemiology
This course introduces students to principles of epidemiology applicable to infectious and non-infectious diseases, host-agent-environmental relationships, and concepts of disease causation. Students will gain familiarity with epidemiologic measures such as incidence, prevalence, mortality, case fatality, relative risk and other rates and ratios. Topics include measures of health and risk, epidemiological study designs and considerations regarding issues of measurement that include assessments of internal and external validity, standardization, confounding, bias, interaction, causality and generalizability. Types and sources of public health data will be reviewed.
Credits
3