Courses Details

EPID662: Methods In Nutritional Epidemiology

  • Graduate level
  • Residential
  • Winter term(s) for residential students;
  • 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
  • Instructor(s): Eduardo Villamor (Residential);
  • Prerequisites: PUBHLTH 500 or PUBHLTH 512 or EPID 600 or equivalent
  • Description: This course focuses on the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic studies addressing diet, human health and disease. The course will review methodological issues in quantitative epidemiological studies, including dietary assessment methods, sources of variation in the diet, energy intake, measurement error, anthropometry and body composition, biomarkers of dietary intake, dietary patterns analysis, and gene-diet interactions. Students will advance their knowledge in nutrition research from a population perspective and gain experience in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of dietary intake data. Didactic lectures, active participation by students, computer exercises, and homework are utilized to allow students to gain hands-on experience on nutritional epidemiologic data analyses. Intended for second year graduate students (Masters and Ph.D.); knowledge in nutrition is highly desirable although not required.
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Eduardo Villamor