Teaching

EPID 590: Epidemiology Methods 1 (Spring/Summer Semester, 4 credits)

This course offers an introduction to the principles, concepts, and methods of population-based epidemiological research. We discuss the way in which epidemiologists measure and describe trends in morbidity and mortality as well as the risk factors for these endpoints. Students also learn how epidemiologists conduct studies to understand causality and learn to identify situations in which the data in epidemiological studies can mislead us and lead us to reach the wrong conclusions.

EPID 811: Critical Appraisals of Epidemiologic Studies (Fall Semester, 3 credits)

This course is for all doctoral students in the epidemiology Ph.D. program. It provides a unifying examination of epidemiological methods, data analysis approaches, and their application to a critical evaluation of the literature under a causal framework.

EPID 640: SAS for Epidemiological Research (Fall Semester, 3 credits)

This course teaches the fundamentals of data management, processing, manipulation, and critical review of data in SAS for epidemiologic and statistical analysis. As a hands-on class, I aim to teach the basics of SAS in addition to sharpening student's intuition about how to use, manipulate, review, interpret, and judge others' claims about data.

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