This course will provide an overview of epidemiologic methods for the study of reproductive outcomes including menstruation, fertility, pregnancy loss, birth outcomes, and maternal morbidity and mortality. Measurement of these outcomes, problems of study design, selection of study populations, common biases and problems of sample size calculation will be covered. This course is intended for people with a basic understanding of epidemiologic methods. The course will be limited to a maximum of 20 students. Both male and female reproductive concerns are addressed as well as methodologic issues in domestic and international settings.
EPID658
Field Internship in Epidemiology II
Fall
term(s)
1 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Harlow, Sioban
Presentation, analysis and discussion of student field experience in Epidemiology. Students present a written abstract, visual presentation and oral report on an aspect of their internship experience at the departmental poster session. Students must also complete a confidential evaluation of their internship experience.
EPID663
Health, Evidence, and Human Rights
Fall
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Harlow, Sioban
Last offered Fall 2007
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
This course will consider how population research can contribute to developing evidence relevant to advancing human rights. The ability to generate and interpret evidence is critical to addressing human rights abuses both in the courts and through the development of national and multilateral policies. Though evidence takes a number of forms and demands a variety of fields of expertise, the skills unique to public health and health research expand the scope of inquiry greatly. Human rights are not an individual phenomenon. They are held at a largely individual level, but in reality, be it in the form of collective claims or as a result of their fundamental interdependence and interrelation, human rights succeed or fail to be realized on a social level, and so also require examination at the population level in order to explicate the complexities that define human rights in the context of community systems. In this central respect, the research capacities of epidemiology and the health professions potentially play an important role in the field of health and human rights. This course will systematically examine how to frame population research priorities from a human rights perspective and how population research methodologies can be applied to human rights questions. Case studies of emerging research in the field will be used to develop a conceptual framework for applying health research methodologies to evidentiary issues in human rights.
EPID665
Research Seminar in International Health
Winter
term(s)
2 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Harlow, Sioban
Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.; restricted to 2nd year Epidemiology International Health MPH students
The seminar provides a forum for the discussion of capstone research projects in international health. Students in both the General Epidemiology and the Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology tracks of the International Health Program present their research findings. In addition, the seminar includes presentations of international health research by other speakers from the University and elsewhere.
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