Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

This is a second level course in modern epidemiologic methods with emphasis on the study of environmental and occupational risks. The course is organized around reading and critiquing current literature, and completing independent analysis using NHANES data. It is designed for those planning to work in exposure assessment, epidemiology, or in closely allied fields. Emphasis is placed on the conduct of field studies. Classroom discussions will focus on causal inference in epidemiology, point and interval estimation for cohort and case-control studies, exposure assessment for epidemiology, control of confounding, and the identification and interpretation of effect modification. These broad concepts in epidemiology will address specific topics of gene-environment interactions, exposure estimation, the influence of group/area level exposures, modeling of environmental exposures for use in epidemiologic analyses, and multi-level analysis applications in environmental/occupational epidemiology.

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