UM SPH Academic Courses

EPID722 Pharmacoepidemiology

Summer term(s)

1 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Staff

Prerequisites: Intro Epidemiology and Perm. Instr.

Description: This course will cover the application of epidemiologic methods to study the use and effects of pharmaceuticals, biologics and other medical products. In particular, it will cover methods of detecting adverse and beneficial drug effects, including spontaneous reporting systems, ad hoc epidemiologic studies, and the growing use of automated databases. Emphasis will be placed on the need to quantify the frequency of drug effects and risk factors for these drug effects, rather than simply documenting causation. We will also address the renewed interest in adverse events as a major public health problem and how it will impact the health care system through the more recent implementation of pharmaceutical risk management plans or Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies, or REMS. Other topics to be covered include measuring the frequency of drug use, the quality of prescribing, and new developments in pharmacoepidemiology methods. Teaching methods will include lectures and workshops, as well as development of a study protocol. Prerequisite: Introductory-level course in epidemiology.

This is a Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology course.

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