School of Engineering and Science
Undergraduate

Term: Spring 2026
Session: 2nd 8 Week Online (Mar 14 - May 08)
Start Date: Saturday, Mar 14, 2026
End Date: Friday, May 08, 2026
Availability: Online
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Drawing on case-based teaching with case studies selected from current literature (biomedical public health and socialsciences) this seminar aims to help students bridge the connection between fundamentals of study design (e.g. cohortcase-control case-cohort case-crossover time-series panels) principles in epidemiologic methods (e.g. confoundingselection bias measurement errors interactions) and sophisticated data analyses/statistical modeling approaches. Theseminar will promote critical thinking among students regarding current topics in environmental epidemiology. Sessionswill include critical review of topics from the literature student presentations and presentations by outside speakers relatedto Environmental Epidemiology. Through facilitated discussions students are introduced to epidemiologic concepts andmethods applied to evaluation and control of the broad health consequences of human-environment interactions involvingvarious physical (e.g. hazardous pollutants; sunlight) and social environments (e.g. violence; policies). Selected practicalexamples covering chemical physical biological and social factors implicated in the pathogenesis and progression ofhuman diseases and public health promotion will be addressed.