PHS 301 INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY
This course explores the basic principles and methods of the epidemiological approach to understanding the distribution and determinants of health and disease and how this knowledge informs public health practice and policy. Students will learn and apply the processes involved in disease surveillance screening programs and outbreak investigations as well as the major epidemiologic study designs through case studies. Basic descriptive and analytic epidemiologic measures will be calculated.
Offered
Offered fall and spring