Prerequisites: BIOSTAT 503, 553 or another graduate course in basic statistics, which may be taken concurrently with EPID 600 is required.
This course consists of lectures and discussion sections, and student lecture attendance is just as important as their participation in the discussion sections for course success. Each student is expected to attend one 1.5 hour lecture a week and one 1.5 hour discussion sections a week. All lectures are given by the instructor. The discussion sections are organized into four sections, each run by a graduate student instructor (GSI). Discussion sections will have two functions. (A)They include discussions of lecture material from that week's lecture, and (B)they will review the solutions to the assignments from the previous week.
This course will be divided into three primary sections. The first section will serve as an introduction to the basic principles of epidemiology and the measures used in epidemiology. The second section will discuss epidemiologic study design (include case-control, cohort studies) and analysis (including bias, confounding, effect modification) and the third section will cover special topics that are important to an introductory understanding of epidemiology (including outbreak investigations, clinical trials, screening, and the role of epidemiology in public health).
EPID602
Foundations in infectious disease transmission modeling
Winter
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Eisenberg, Joseph
Last offered Winter 2008
Prerequisites: EPID 600, BIOSTATS 503, 553, or another course that provides a similar background in probability and statistics
Infectious disease transmission modeling provides a theoretical framework for the field of infectious disease epidemiology, and therefore provides the basis for thinking about study design, data analysis, and decision making on public health policy questions. This course will serve as an introduction to infectious disease transmission modeling, teaching more quantitative concepts of disease transmission. It will cover the basic tools required to both critically read modeling papers and to develop and use models as research tools. Emphasis will be placed on using models to understand infectious disease processes and to evaluate potential control strategies. The class meeting will consist of both lecture material covering conceptual issues and a computer lab to apply these concepts using standard infectious disease models.
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