ANTH 572R - Epidemiologic Concepts&Methods

Credits: Variable

This course provides students grounding in epidemiology-the study of patterns in disease and health outcomes within and between populations-with an emphasis on their use in anthropology and global health research. We will cover: measures of disease frequency; epidemiologic study designs, their merits and limitations, and their appropriate uses; epidemiologic methods of data analysis, and interpretation of results; and, the process of causal inference in epidemiology (i.e., evaluating a body of evidence for a causal relationship between an exposure and a disease outcome). Offered every spring.