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.