Baylin Group - Nutritional Epidemiology and Cardiovascular Disease

Courses

EPID625 Controversial topics in the role of nutrition on chronic disease
Winter term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s): Baylin, Ana
Last offered Winter 2013
Prerequisites: EPID 600 or EPID503 AND BIOSTAT 503 or BIOSTAT 553
Description: This public health-oriented course will provide students the opportunity to advance their knowledge in nutrition and chronic disease research from a population perspective and help them to better interpret epidemiologic studies on nutrition and chronic disease.
Course Goals: Introduce students to the current state of knowledge regarding nutrition and chronic disease.
Competencies: Demonstrate a working knowledge of the basic principles of nutrition research, including basic pathophysiology. Demonstrate ability to synthesize and interpret the scientific literature on nutrition and chronic disease. Understand methodological concepts on nutrition and chronic disease research. Be able to evaluate nutritional prevention strategies and dietary guidelines implemented to reduce the burden of chronic disease. 1. The concept of exposure as it refers to a potential causal factor, and the wide range of exposures (genetic, biological, environmental, social, cultural, lifestyle and behavioral factors) that may be associated with states of health and disease. 2. Critical reading: ability to read a scientific paper in epidemiology and accurately assess its strengths, weaknesses, and likely contribution to knowledge.

EPID656 Applied Epidemiologic Data Analysis
Fall term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s): Baylin, Ana
Offered every year
Last offered Fall 2011
Prerequisites: Epid 600 and concurrent/previous enrollment in Biostat 560; or permission of the instructor. This course is intended for second year MPH students in the Department of Epidemiology and students in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology program.
Description: Epid 656 is a one-semester practicum in epidemiologic data analysis designed to integrate and apply concepts learned in previous biostatistics and epidemiologic methods courses. Students learn practical skills to analyze and interpret epidemiologic data with continuous and dichotomous outcome variables through lectures and hands-on exercises.

EPID812 Critical Appraisal of Pathobiology
Winter term(s)
2 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s): Baylin, Ana
Offered every year
Last offered Winter 2013
Prerequisites: Epidemiology PhD precandidate
Description: This course is for doctoral students in the Epidemiology department that are preparing for the Preliminary Examination. This course will integrate basic concepts of disease mechanisms with the biology and epidemiology of representative human diseases. Students will be required to give a presentation on a selected topic.