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Announcements: Epidemiology in Action: Intermediate Analytic Methods Course --- May 31--June 1, 2011

Announcements: Epidemiology in Action: Intermediate Analytic Methods Course --- May 31--June 1, 2011
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April 1, 2011 / 60(12);379





Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and CDC's Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services will cosponsor Epidemiology in Action: Intermediate Analytic Methods, to be held May 31--June 3, 2011, at Emory University. This course is designed for public health professionals who have had training and experience in basic applied epidemiology and would like training in additional quantitative skills related to analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic data.

The course includes a review of the fundamentals of descriptive epidemiology and biostatistics, measures of association, normal and binomial distributions, confounding, statistical tests, stratification, logistic regression models, and computer programs as used in epidemiology.

The prerequisite is an introductory course in epidemiology taken as an undergraduate or graduate student or completion of courses such as Epidemiology in Action or the International Course in Applied Epidemiology. Tuition will be charged.

Additional information and applications are available from Emory University by mail (Hubert Department of Global Health [Attn: Pia], 1518 Clifton Rd. NE, Rm. 7038, Atlanta, GA 30322), by telephone (404-727-3485); by fax (404-727-4590), online (http://www.sph.emory.edu/epicourses), or by email (pvaleri@emory.edu).


Announcements: Epidemiology in Action: Intermediate Analytic Methods Course --- May 31--June 1, 2011

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