Epidemiologic Methods

Faculty Directors

James L. Gale, MD, MS and Mark Oberle, MD, MPH

Two options in epidemiologic methods will be offered. Students enrolled in either option will attend that option throughout the week.

Introductory Epidemiology (IE)

This track will provide weeklong training in applied epidemiology through scenarios applicable to public health emergency/bioterrorism skills. It will introduce surveillance, the use of rates, disease investigation, study design, causal inference, and issues in reviewing the literature. The course will be taught by Professors James Gale, Ronald Di Giacomo, and Mark Oberle.

Advanced Topics in Epidemiology (AE)

For the first time the Institute will offer a separate option in Advanced Topics in Epidemiology based on the new text, Epidemiologic Methods: Studying the Occurrence of Illness (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) authored by Thomas D. Koepsell and Noel S. Weiss, both epidemiology professors at the University of Washington. The course and the book are aimed at public health professionals who will be conducting epidemiologic studies themselves or who need a firm grasp of epidemiologic principles in order to interpret and evaluate studies conducted by others. The course will be organized around two main themes: general concepts and methods of epidemiology, and study design. The course will be taught by Dr. Weiss, Dr. Schiff, and Janet Baseman, a predoctoral fellow, using case-based examples.

Week At-a-Glance

• The Monday schedule is different from the other days. Please see the Tabletop Exercise page for details
• The Institute ends at 3:00 PM on Friday