Course Descriptions
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Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology

Objectives & Rationale

Each year the curriculum of the Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology is reviewed and revised appropriately by a planning committee consisting of faculty from various academic centers, and governmental and corporate agencies. The primary objective is to provide intensive instruction in the principles, methods and applications of epidemiology. The continuity of this program over a period of 40 years speaks for itself as fulfilling an important role in the education and training of graduate students in public health, physicians and health professionals throughout the world. The University of Michigan School of Public Health has been privileged to serve as the host institution since 1988.

The curriculum allows for three-week and one-week courses. Each one-week course may be viewed as an independent entity, although many students have taken advantage of the sequence of interrelated topics. For example, we continue to offer a sequence of one-week courses that review biostatistical methods commonly used in epidemiological studies. The sequence will include topics concerning measures of risk in cohort studies, analysis of contingency table data, logistic regression analysis and life table methods of survival analysis. A relatively new course offering will be concerned with the design and interpretation of longitudinal studies involving repeated measures. We encourage you to review carefully the contents of this website, which will serve to guide your selection and scheduling of courses.