HLTH 706Advanced Epidemiological Methods
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Health
- Subject
- Public Health Sciences
HLTH 706 as listed in the Winter 2026 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.
Building on HLTH 606, this course provides an in-depth survey of theory and methods in epidemiology, focusing on answering complex research questions using epidemiologic methods. Course topics include modeling multinomial, count, rate, and survival data and disease transmission; infectious disease dynamics; assessing the reliability/validity of measurement instruments; an in-depth examination of various study designs (e.g., case control, nested case control, case-cohort, randomized controlled trials, panel studies, and hybrid study designs); critical appraisal of the medical literature; and systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
Prerequisites
- Must have completed the following:
- HLTH605
- HLTH606
Antirequisites
None listed.
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