The following titles link to the Powerpoint slides for the EPID160/EPID600 lectures. The files include verbatim speaker notes. The lectures were recorded live, in front of the class, during spring 2011 or later semesters (see links below). Students enrolled in EPID600 should access the latest versions through the Sakai course website.

These lectures are made available for your personal use. If you would like to use all or parts of these lectures in your teaching or for other purposes, kindly obtain permission from Victor_Schoenbach@unc.edu.

Please note - the slides are on my epidemiolog.net website, so the URL's will begin with: www.epidemiolog.net/epid160/lectures/.

1. Introduction (updated 1/11/2011)  


2. Studying populations (updated 1/18/2011)  


3. Epidemiologic measures - Incidence and prevalence (updated 1/25/2011)  


4. Natural history of disease / Population screening (updated 2/1/2011)  


5. Study designs: Intervention studies (Updated 2/8/2011)  


6. Study designs: Cohort studies (updated 2/15/2011) 


7. Study designs: Cross-sectional studies (updated 2/22/2011)  


8. Study designs: Case-control studies (updated 3/2/2011)  


9. Selection bias (updated 3/15/2011)


10. Information bias (updated 3/22/2011)  


11. Confounding (updated 4/5/2011)


12. Data analysis and causal inference (updated 4/12/2011)  
    Data analysis and causal inference (updated 4/19/2011)  


13. Critically reading epidemiologic studies (updated 3/29/2011)  


14. Role of epidemiology in public health (work in progress; updated 5/1/2011; typo corrected and several URLs updated 2/14/2022)  

6/13/2012, 11/15/2013, 5/17/2017, 10/27/2017, 2/14/2022