EPID600, Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health

Instructors: Victor J. Schoenbach, Lorraine K. Alexander

University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

Department of Epidemiology

Principles of epidemiology for public health (EPID600), Spring 2007

Modules - objectives, instructions, case studies questions, lecture slides

Note: Not all modules are currently available for this semester. In those cases, a link for a more recent version has been provided.

  1. Introduction [from fall 2017]   (PDF)

  2. Studying populations   (PDF)

  3. Investigating disease outbreaks   (PDF)

  4. Critical review of epidemiologic studies   (PDF)

  5. Measuring disease: incidence and prevalence   (PDF)

  6. Natural history / population screening   (PDF)

  7. Study designs: Intervention studies   (PDF)

  8. Study designs: Cohort studies   (PDF)

  9. Study designs: Case-control studies   (PDF)

  10. Study designs: Cross-sectional and ecologic studies   (PDF)

  11. Error: Selection bias   (PDF)

  12. Error: Information bias   (PDF)

  13. Multicausality: Confounding   (PDF)

  14. Data analysis and interpretation, Causal inference   (PDF)

  15. Conclusion - Epidemiology and public health  (PDF)


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