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  • Welcome

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    Brandon Guthrie

    Instructor: Brandon Guthrie, PhD

    Associate Professor, Global Health
    Associate Professor, Epidemiology
    University of Washington

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    Student Support Specialist: Dewa Shrestha Greenleaf, MA
    edgh@uw.edu



    THIS IS A SAMPLE of what you would experience in the course!  We are making part of the first module available for free so that you can gauge whether the content level is right for you. Written assignments, discussion forums and quizzes are not included.  If you are interested in taking this course, please visit our website for more details. As always, please contact us at edgh@uw.edu if you have questions.

          

    Course Learning Objectives

    After completing this course, you will be able to:

    1. Describe the main concepts in epidemiology.
    2. Describe the methodological approaches to measuring diseases in populations and assessing relationships between exposures and diseases.
    3. Describe how to use measures of association to investigate the relationship between exposure and disease.
    4. Explain how statistical approaches can be used to describe data, including measures of location and spread and how statistical testing can be used to draw conclusions.
    5. Describe the characteristics of different study designs, including cohort studies, case-control studies, and randomized trials and provide examples of when each study design would be appropriate and preferred.
    6. List the seven viewpoints that epidemiologists use to assess the likelihood of a causal exposure-disease relationship.
    7. Identify confounding and how to account for confounding to produce valid conclusions.
    8. Describe the most common strategies to control for confounding.
    9. Give examples of how the research question of interest will dictate how subjects are classified in terms of exposure and disease.
    10. Describe how to interpret the various measures of test performance.
    11. Summarize the common regression methods used in epidemiology.
    12. Describe the various types of surveillance systems and the ways in which global health surveillance can guide public health action.

  • General Information

  • Module 1

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