EPDC 621 PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

This course trains students in epidemiological principles, methods, and practices through constructive coursework and offers them the opportunity to acquire knowledge, skills and experiences for studying and measuring the distributions, characteristics, causes, and prevention of disease, disability and premature death in humans. The course emphasises measurement of morbidity and mortality and the significance of indices used and standardization of rates. It discusses models and inferences underlying observational studies, approaches for constructing measures of disease occurrence, identifying causes of confounding in epidemiologic studies, characterizing sources of bias in observational studies and how to link scientific questions with appropriate analytical methods.