CLI 8521 Advanced Epidemiology
'This course is designed to provide the student with the critical thinking, methodologic and analytic skills necessary to understand causality in observational and interventional research, to select the most appropriate study design to answer a research question, and to independently quantify and interpret the results. Training in the collection, use and interpretation of data from large epidemiologic and clinical cohorts, and in the use and interpretation of data from public use data sources, including the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program, the National Health Interview Survey and the U.S. Census is included. This course is designed as a practicum in epidemiologic data analysis that integrates learning from previous courses. It includes both lectures and data driven hands-on exercises.