UM SPH Academic Courses

EHS608 Environmental Epidemiology

Winter term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): O'Neill, Marie

Prerequisites: Epid 600 or 503, Biostat 553 or 503

Description: This course will serve as an introduction to topics in environmental epidemiology, covering major areas of current inquiry in this field. It will convey the basic tools required to critically read the literature and to develop appropriate study designs in light of intended applications. The class meeting will include lectures and student-led discussions. This course will review epidemiologic methods used in evaluating the health effects of physical and chemical agents in the environment and the available evidence on the health effects of such exposures. We will also consider policy and public health applications of the scientific evidence. Topics include lectures on methodology and major environmental exposures, discussions based on review and critiques of current literature, and presentations by outside experts on specific environmental epidemiology issues of current interest, followed by primary instructor-led discussion on the paper. After taking this course, students should have a better understanding of the scope, limitations, applications and future of environmental epidemiology.

This course is cross-listed with Epid 608 in the Epidemiology department.

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