BIOL 501 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Credits: 3
Dual-Listed Class: Dual-Listed Class
Description: Introduces epidemiologic principles, concepts and methods used to study the distribution and determinants of diseases in populations. Includes public health and clinical applications. Topics includes the history of epidemiology, dynamics of disease transmission, measures of disease frequency and association, study designs, causation, and also consider ethics and public policy issues in epidemiology.