180.615.11
Environmental Epidemiology
Course Status
Cancelled
Course Status
Cancelled
Location
East Baltimore
Term
Summer Institute
Department
Environmental Health and Engineering
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2014 - 2015
Instruction Method
TBD
Start Date
Monday, June 9, 2014
End Date
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
M, Tu, W, Th, F, 1:30 - 4:20pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Ana Navas-Acien
Contact Email
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
An introductory level course (or higher) in epidemiology
Introduces the key health effects of environmental exposures and the epidemiologic methods used to identify and estimate those effects. Emphasizes the interplay of methodological issues, including the assessment of environmental exposures and the understanding of specific disease processes in identifying the health impact of environmental exposures in the population. Students learn about environmental exposures (including water and air pollution, food contamination, ionizing radiation, persistent environmental pollutants and emergent environmental exposures) and key methodological issues relevant for these exposures in population studies (including study design, exposure assessment and biomonitoring, disease clusters, dose-response relationships, susceptibility, geographic analysis, and evidence synthesis).
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the major environmental and risk factors for health-related outcomes in human populations
- Explain the key methodological issues relevant to the identification and estimation of the burden of disease caused by environmental factors
- Describe and analyze environmental health problems, and discuss exposure-disease relationships in human populations
Jointly Offered With