Course Description

This course offers an introduction to the concepts and methodologies of population-based epidemiologic principles. This is an introductory course for biomedical researchers and medical professionals who are not majoring in Epidemiology. The lectures will cover the following topics: (1) Epidemiology key terms and core concepts; (2) Calculation and interpretation of measures of disease frequency and measures of association; (3) Evaluation of epidemiologic study designs and their restrictions; (4) Applications of epidemiologic methods in different fields of public health. Upon completion of the course, students will have a comprehensive understanding of the investigation, causality, and inference in public health using the practical epidemiologic methods.

Learner Outcomes

When you complete the course successfully, you will be able to:

• Calculate basic epidemiology measures using hospital and clinical data
• Understand the research methods and causal reasoning based on developing and testing hypotheses in epidemiology
• Conduct appropriate inferences from epidemiologic data and apply analytical skills using modern statistical approaches
• Identify the causes and factors that may influence the occurrence of pandemic disease and health condition
• Learn to communicate epidemiologic information with professional and general audiences

Microcredential(s)

This course applies toward the Bioinformatics Endeavor digital badge.

What FAES Learners are Saying

"Instructor was very approachable and well prepared for questions which might not have been directly related to the current material but within the goals of my taking of the course." - FAES Learner
 

Textbook Information

There is no textbook for purchase required for this course.