An adequate level of knowledge and understanding of epidemiological methods is a basic requirement for effective public health practice. This module will cover measures of disease and association, epidemiological concepts and the main epidemiological research designs. Epidemiological concepts include association and causation, confounding and bias and the research designs will include cross-sectional, ecological, cohort, case-control and intervention studies.
This module aims to develop an understanding and basic proficiency in epidemiological methods as applied to public health, in particular in the areas of epidemiological concepts, measures, research designs and interpretation.

Main teachers

• Ravi Maheswaran (Royaume-Uni)

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
25	150	7