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department Epidemiology (A Graduate Group) (24) |
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory/discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: Statistics 130B or 131B, or 133; Statistics 108 recommended. Development of broad statistical skills useful for the analysis of scientific data. Special emphasis given to determining factors associated with characteristics like disease and time-to-event. Analysis of data that can be modeled as generalized linear and generalized linear mixed models, parametric and non-parametric survival models, and models for correlated, clustered, longitudinal data.—III. Johnson
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Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 402 or consent of instructor. Basic epidemiologic concepts and approaches to epidemiologic research, with examples from veterinary and human medicine, including outbreak investigation, infectious disease epidemiology, properties of tests, and an introduction to epidemiologic study design and surveillance. (Same course as Preventive Veterinary Medicine 405.)—I. (I.)
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Discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 405/course 205A can be taken concurrently. In-depth analysis and integration of basic epidemiologic concepts and approaches to epidemiologic research presented in Preventive Veterinary Medicine 405/course 205A, with more mathematical and theoretical basis and examples from veterinary and human medicine, including outbreak investigation, infectious disease epidemiology, properties of diagnostic tests, study design, and surveillance.—I. (I.)
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Lecture—1.5 hours; discussion—0.9 hours; laboratory—1.8 hours. Prerequisite: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 405/course 205A, course 205B. Builds on concepts presented in course 205A. Concepts of epidemiologic study design—clinical trials, observational cohort studies, case control studies—introduced in course 205A are covered in more depth, using a problem-based format. Discussion of published epidemiologic studies. (Same course as Preventive Veterinary Medicine 406A.)—II. (II.)
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: course 205B and 206. In-depth integration of advanced concepts in study design, with theory and examples, including confounding, effect modification under additive and multiplicative models, internal and external validity, bias, misclassification, alternate designs, source populations, statistical power and sample size, causation, and genetic epidemiology.—III. Gold, Kass
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Lecture—16 sessions; laboratory—21 sessions; project. Prerequisite: course 204 (may be taken concurrently) and 207, and either Statistics 144 or Population Health and Reproduction 202 and entry level skill in standard statistical software (e.g., SPSS, BMDP, SAS, Stata, MinTab, S-Plus). Application of theory and concepts of statistics and epidemiology to analysis and interpretation of data typically found in veterinary and human epidemiologic research.—III. Beckett
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory/discussion—3 hours. Prerequisite: Statistics 130B and Preventive Veterinary Medicine 406 (or the equivalent), or consent of instructor. Theory and practice of epidemiologic data analysis. Topics include confounding, stratification, matching, interaction, and logistic regression. (Same course as Population Health and Reproduction 210A.)—II. (II.) Kass
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 210A. Theory and practice of epidemiologic data analysis. Topics include rates, rate standardization, cohort analysis, Poisson regression, and survival/failure-time methods. (Same course as Population Health and Reproduction 210B.)—III. (III.) Kass
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 405 and 406 or the equivalent; Population Health and Reproduction 207 concurrently; Statistics 102 and 106 or the equivalent. Design and development of research protocols and funding applications for peer review. Application of research methods data collection and management and statistical analysis in research proposals. Methods of evaluating research proposals, mechanisms of funding, specifying human subjects considerations.—III. (III.) Gold
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 405. Techniques of model building and simulation of infectious diseases will be explored. Epidemiologic modeling philosophy, construction and validation will be emphasized. Offered in alternate years.—II. Carpenter
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 405 or Environmental Studies 126 or Veterinary Medicine 409. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial statistics. Students are expected to complete a term project based on their graduate research. Offered in alternate years.—II. Carpenter
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 406 or consent of instructor; background in statistics, including multivariable techniques; a course in differential equations. A methodological approach to risk analysis for human and animal-related health and ecological issues. Basic principles of risk analysis, including perception, communication, assessment and management. Emphasis on the assessment of risk.—III. (III.) Carpenter
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Discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: courses 205B, 206, and 207 (or equivalents, with consent of instructor). An in-depth study of topics in epidemiology theory and methods, selected from: causal inference, confounding, study design, or other related areas, with year to year variation. Readings are assigned and students are expected to lead discussions on them. May be repeated for credit when topic differs. Not offered every year.—II, III. (II, III.) Hertz-Picciotto
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Lecture—3 hours; lecture/discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: Mathematics 16A-B or Mathematics 17A-B or Mathematics 21A-B or equivalent; basic knowledge of the principles of linear algebra, such as those taught in mathematics 22A or the equivalent, is assumed. The application of calculus and linear algebra techniques to epidemiological problems. Topics include applications of derivatives, integration, exponentials and logarithms, multivariable calculus, infinite series, and vector and matrix algebra, with examples and problems taken from epidemiology and related subjects.—I. (I.) Harvey
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours. Overview of the epidemiology of human injury, including general principles, surveillance methods, behavioral factors, environmental factors, treatment issues and engineering and legal interventions related to vehicular injuries, drownings, falls, fires and burns, poisonings, firearm injuries, and other intentional injuries.—I. (I.) Romano
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Lecture—1 hour. Prerequisite: graduate standing or medical/nursing personnel. For medical personnel who are or will be involved in medical research. Review of basics of clinical study design and analysis of clinical data. (S/U grading only.)—I. (I.) McCurdy, Romano
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 405 (may be taken concurrently); upper division undergraduates who have completed Environmental Studies 126; or the equivalent. Examination of the human health effects and the risk of disease from community, occupational, and personal exposure to toxic substances. Offered in alternate years.—I. Gold
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours. Overview of the epidemiology of chronic disease in old age. Topics include biology of aging, epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, neoplasms, osteoporosis and fractures, psychosocial factors and health in old age, dementias, functional status and prevention of disease.—II. (II.)
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Laboratory/discussion—3 hours. Prerequisite: Environmental Studies 126 or Preventive Veterinary Medicine 405; and Statistics 102 or Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine 402. Methods used in epidemiologic research on occupational hazards. Topics include design and analysis of cohort and case-control studies, sample size, measuring dose, choosing a control group, validation of employment and health data, interpreting negative studies, and analysis software. Offered in alternate years.—III. Beaumont
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Recitation—1 hour; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: must have basic understanding of epidemiologic and statistical concepts that are covered in courses 205A, 205B, 206 (may be taken concurrently), and Statistics 102. We will cover the underlying concepts essential to understanding cancer epidemiology, such as trends in incidence and survival, epidemiologic methods used to assess cancer etiology, prevention and control, and an introduction to the cancerinitiation and progression multi-stage model.—II. (II.) Butler, Cress
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Seminar—1 hour. Students will actively participate in presentation and discussion of ongoing or published research projects in epidemiology. (S/U grading only.)—III. (III.)
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Seminar—1 hour. Critical review, evaluation, and discussion of research in health services and clinical epidemiology. Presentation of statistical, epidemiologic, and econometric methods. Students present their own research and critique the work of others. May be repeated for credit. (Same course as General Medicine 291.) (S/U grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Seminar—1-5 hours. Group study in selected areas of epidemiology.
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Research in selected areas of epidemiology. (S/U grading only.)
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