PH 216 Applied Epidemiology

In this course, students will develop the skills needed to succinctly summarize and communicate the findings from health and health-care related research questions. Students will build upon the content of previous courses in epidemiology and biostatistics. Because epidemiologists are often concerned with the presence or absence of a disease, this course will focus on logistic regression and interpreting unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios. This course will also build a working knowledge of confounding and effect modification, two critical concepts in epidemiology. By the end of this course, students will be able to find available health data to address epidemiological research questions, apply appropriate descriptive statistics to summarize such health data, and interpret, synthesize and communicate results to epidemiological research questions that involve odds ratios, confounding and effect modification.

0.40 Dartmouth units; (HP, P, LP, NC)

Required for Online MPH

Prerequisites: None

Instructor

Carlos Jackson