The module builds on MPH module 1 and aims to develop the participant’s professional competences regarding:

• critical review and assessment of scientific papers which include epidemiological data and analyses
• analysis of data from standard epidemiological studies, including bivariate, stratified and regression analyses

In-depth study of scientific papers; confounding and bias; matching; intervention studies; multiple logistic regression analysis; analysis of data.
The module builds on MPH module 1 and aims to enable the participants to:

• Be familiar with basic concepts form epidemiology and statistics introduced in MPH module 1
• Analyse simple data from standard epidemiology studies using suitable statistical software (at present SAS)
• Critical read scientific papers which include analysis of epidemiological data.

Main teachers

• Judith L. Jacobsen (Denmark)

Workload and ECTS