Upon successfully completing this course, students will be familiar with:

  • The basic principles of environmental epidemiology
  • The specific content and analytical needs of research on the effects of macro-environmental factors on health.
  • The basic concepts around data analysis in environmental epidemiology using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • The application of Poisson models for the analysis of epidemiological time series with application in environmental epidemiology
  • Time-series analysis in the statistical package R

 CONTENTS

  1. Introduction to environmental epidemiology and related study designs
  2. Introduction to time-series analysis in environmental epidemiology
  3. Poisson epidemiological models and methods (parametric and non-parametric) to adjust for potential confounders
  4. Model selection criteria
  5. Approaches for modeling time-lag structures
  6. Methods for investigating exposure response relationships
  7. Special issues in Environmental epidemiology.
  8. Data analysis in environmental epidemiology using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)