This document summarizes key concepts in measuring disease association from an epidemiology course, including: 1) How risk and rate ratios are calculated in cohort studies by comparing disease rates in exposed and unexposed groups. 2) How odds ratios are estimated in case-control studies by comparing odds of exposure in disease and non-disease groups. 3) How the 1950 Doll and Hill study on smoking and lung cancer was one of the first to estimate odds ratios from a case-control design.