UM SPH Academic Courses

EPID730 Occupational and Environmental Exposure Assessment

Summer term(s)

1 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Staff

Prerequisites: Intro Epidemiology, P.I.

Description: In recent years significant advances have been made in the exposure assessment methods used in epidemiologic studies of occupational and environmental hazards. These have resulted in major improvements in both validity and reliability and have increased our understanding of the impact of misclassification. This course will present an overview of the methods currently available for occupational and environmental exposure assessment in both workplace and community-based studies and provide participants with the ability to assess the strengths and limitations of different strategies. Topics will include assessing feasibility, designing an effective strategy, quantitative and semi-quantitative methods, assessing misclassification, and analysis strategies. The course will use a combination of lectures, case studies, and problem-solving exercises. Prerequisite Introductory level course in epidemiology. NOTE: It is highly recommended that students for this course also take Epid 723 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiololgy which is offered during the same week in the morning session.

This is a Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology course.

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