Epidemiology and Biostatistics

An introductory course offered to undergraduates covering the basic principles of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. This course introduces students to the types and sources of epidemiological data, common measures of morbidity and mortality, the design and analysis of various epidemiological study designs and the main biases and issues that threaten data validity. The course also covers exploratory data analysis, and introduces students to statistical techniques commonly used in the analysis of epidemiological data. The students will learn how to run basic statistical analyses on SPSS and interpret statistical output. The lab sessions for the epidemiology sessions will be in the form of discussion of practice questions or articles, and computer lab sessions will mainly introduce students to statistical analysis using the statistical package SPSS.