Environmental Epidemiology

Catalog description

This course provides students with an understanding of the major topics in environmental epidemiology and involves the application of epidemiologic methods to environmental exposures. Environmental exposures discussed include environmental tobacco smoke, radon, ambient air pollution, and others. The course material covers 1) the statistical methods and software coding needed to analyze these data, as well as the interpretation of the results of these methods; and 2) geographic information system (GIS) software and coding needed to display epidemiologic data. Spatial statistical methods in environmental epidemiology will be discussed, including geostatistical exposure modeling and areal and point-process data analysis. Also, linear mixed effect (LME) models, generalized additive models (GAMs) and generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) and their use in environmental epidemiology will be discussed.