Environmental Epidemiology

Catalog description

Engages students in conducting population research, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic data for environmental public health research and practice. Introduces epidemiologic concepts and methods applied to evaluation and control of the broad health consequences of human-environment interactions involving various physical (i.e., pollution) and social environments. Activities include lectures and case study seminars (or labs) with discussion. The case study seminars (labs) provide students the opportunity to bridge the connection between fundamentals of study design, principles in epidemiologic methods, and sophisticated data analyses/statistical modeling approaches.