MPH5040 Introductory epidemiology

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Explain and contextualise the purposes of descriptive and analytical epidemiology;

2. 2

   Explain and contextualise the concepts of study questions, population, sampling, exposure assessment, bias and confounding;

3. 3

   Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different epidemiological study designs;

4. 4

   Critically analyse epidemiological papers from the medical research and OHS literature;

5. 5

   Evaluate the adequacy of exposure assessment in epidemiological studies;

6. 6

   Interpret and communicate the results of epidemiological studies; and

7. 7

   Solve complex problems relating to the use of epidemiological concepts and study designs.