Opening Weekend Agenda

1. Welcome to Epi 504D
Andrew Voetsch
Linda Ahdieh Grant

2. Opening Weekend Schedule
Friday Saturday
Topic Time Topic Time
Course Overview 30 Review Topics from day 1 ‐ dv 45
Intro to Epidemiology ‐ lag 45 Case Study: The Role of
Epidemiologic Studies in Male
Circumcision and HIV – dv
30
Break 15 Break 15
Dynamics of Disease
Transmission ‐ lag
30 Group Project 90
Food Outbreak Exercise
(introduce study designs) ‐ dv
60

3. Course Overview

4. Course Competencies
• Use analytical reasoning and quantitative
methods to address questions in public health
and population‐based research
• Describe the use of epidemiology methods to
study the etiology and control of disease and
injury in populations
• Develop the capacity for lifelong learning
public health

5. Learning Objectives
• Describe and/or identify the essential features of basic
epidemiologic study designs and recognize the advantages
and limitations of each
• Calculate appropriate measures of disease occurrence,
disease association, and attributable risk
• Describe the concepts of bias, confounding and interaction
in epidemiologic studies and be able to provide strategies
to minimize the effects of these when present in a study
• Demonstrate understanding of the contributions of
epidemiology to the field of public health
• Describe key assumptions and limitations of assessing
causality

6. Evaluation
• Weekly homework assignments
• Midterm
• Final
• Group project
• Participation

7. Course Schedule
• Opening and Closing Weekends
• 12 Online Weeks
• Weekly reading assignments from textbook
• Supplementary materials will be posted on
blackboard

8. Group Project
• Project will explore role of epidemiology in a current
public health problem
• Random assignment to a small group
• Interim components will be due on February 7 and
March 6
• Final projects will be presented at the closing weekend
• More discussion tomorrow!

9. General Study Tips
• Keep up with the book and learn the material
• Stay engaged
• Actively participate on the discussion boards
• Enjoy

10. Opening Weekend Schedule
Friday Saturday
Topic Time Topic Time
Course Overview 30 Review Topics from day 1 ‐ dv 45
Intro to Epidemiology ‐ lag 45 Case Study: The Role of
Epidemiologic Studies in Male
Circumcision and HIV – dv
30
Break 15 Break 15
Dynamics of Disease
Transmission ‐ lag
30 Group Project 90
Food Outbreak Exercise
(introduce study designs) ‐ dv
60