Courses Taught by Alexis Handal
EHS608: Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Alexis Handal (Residential);
- Offered Every winter semester
- Last offered Winter 2024
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: Introduces topics in environmental and occupational epidemiology, methods to evaluate health effects of exposures in environment and workplace, and policy and public health applications. Lectures cover key environmental and occupational epidemiology research; student-led discussions critique current literature. Students learn about scope, limitations, applications and future of environmental and occupational epidemiology.
- This course is cross-listed with EPID 608 in the Epidemiology department.
- Syllabus for EHS608
EPID604: Applications Of Epidemiology
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s) for residential students;
- 1-6 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Ella August, James Buskiewicz, Sara Adar, Matthew Boulton, Andrew Brouwer, Melissa Beck, Kelly Bakulski, Miatta Buxton, Joseph Eisenberg, Marisa Eisenberg, Nancy Fleischer, Betsy Foxman, Aubree Gordon, Alexis Handal, Jennifer Head, Jihyoun Jeon, Spruha Joshi, Sharon Kardia, Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez, Lindsay Kobayashi, Peter Larson, Aleda Leis, Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg, Lynda Lisabeth, Juan Marquez, Emily Martin, Briana Mezuk, Alison Mondul, Lewis Morgenstern, Belinda Needham, Marie O'Neill, Sung Kyun Park, C. Leigh Pearce, Laura Power, Alex Rickard, Jennifer Smith, Eduardo Villamor, Abram Wagner, Xin Wang, Douglas Wiebe, Zhenhua Yang, Jonathan Zelner, (Residential);
- Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
- Description: Application of epidemiological methods and concepts to analysis of data from epidemiological, clinical or laboratory studies. Introduction to independent research and scientific writing under faculty guidance.
- This course is cross-listed with .
- Syllabus for EPID604
EPID608: Environmental Epidemiology
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Alexis Handal (Residential);
- Offered Every Winter
- Prerequisites: Epid 600 or 503, Biostat 553 or 503
- Description: This course will serve as an introduction to topics in environmental epidemiology, covering major areas of current inquiry in this field. It will convey the basic tools required to critically read the literature and to develop appropriate study designs in light of intended applications. The class meeting will include lectures and student-led discussions. This course will review epidemiologic methods used in evaluating the health effects of physical, biological and chemical agents in the environment and the available evidence on the health effects of such exposures. We will also consider policy and public health applications of the scientific evidence. Topics include lectures on methodology and major environmental exposures, discussions based on review and critiques of current literature, and presentations by outside experts on specific environmental epidemiology issues of current interest. After taking this course, students should have a better understanding of the scope, limitations, applications and future of environmental epidemiology.
- This course is cross-listed with EHS 608 in the Environmental Health Sciences department.
- Syllabus for EPID608
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | EPID | Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology | MPH | Design an epidemiologic study of an environmental or occupational factor and a health outcome that tests one or more specific hypotheses | EPID608 |
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EPID664: Field Methods In Global Health Epidemiology
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Alexis Handal (Residential);
- Offered Every Winter
- Prerequisites: Foundations in epidemiology (met by either PH512, PH500, EPID 600 or EPID 601) and foundations in global health (met by EPID506), or permission of the instructor.
- Description: This course is for global health epidemiology students preparing for internships in global settings. Students will learn procedures necessary to conduct epidemiologic studies in international settings, including developing relationships with foreign collaborators, obtaining funding and ethical approval, and managing field operations. Students will discuss case studies in global health ethics.
- Syllabus for EPID664
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | EPID | Global Health Epidemiology | MPH | Apply the steps in developing research infrastructure for population health studies in low- and middle-income countries, including consideration of local ethics and IRB review | EPID506, EPID664 | EPID | Global Health Epidemiology | MPH | Develop strategies and capacity for resolving problems that arise when conducting epidemiology studies in low- and middle-income countries | EPID664, EPID665 |
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EPID698: Ms Capstone In Epidemiology
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall, Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Staff, Sara Adar, Ella August, Kelly Bakulski, Melissa Beck, Matthew Boulton, Andrew Brouwer, James Buskiewicz, Miatta Buxton, Carol Chenoweth, Philippa Clarke, Marisa Eisenberg, Joseph Eisenberg, Nancy Fleischer, Betsy Foxman, Aubree Gordon, Alexis Handal, Sioban Harlow, Michael Hayashi, Jennifer Head, William Herman, Kirsten Herold, Tyler James, Jihyoun Jeon, Spruha Joshi, Sharon Kardia, Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez, Mark Katz, Devon Keen, Lindsay Kobayashi, Peter Larson, Aleda Leis, Paul Lephart, Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg, Lynda Lisabeth, Juan Marquez, Emily Martin, Dan McConnell, Briana Mezuk, Eve Mokotoff, Alison Mondul, Arnold S Monto, Hal Morgenstern, Lewis Morgenstern, Belinda Needham, Duane Newton, Gilbert Omenn, C. Leigh Pearce, Patricia A Peyser, Laura Power, Meza Rafael, Sarah Reeves, Paul Resnick, Julia Richards, Alex Rickard, Aruna Sarma, Jennifer Smith, Evan Snitkin, Howard Stein, Michael Swain, Eduardo Villamor, Abram Wagner, Xin Wang, Douglas Wiebe, Mark L Wilson, Zhenhua Yang, Jonathan Zelner, (Residential);
- Prerequisites: Enrolled in Epidemiology MS programs
- Description: This capstone research project course is designed for Epidemiology MS students (30-credit or 48-credit CESM programs). Working with their mentor, students are expected to develop an original research project to address public health problems using epidemiologic methods. Students will have the opportunity to apply what they learned in their coursework to important public health questions. Students will work with a faculty mentor to conduct a literature review, develop a research project, develop and implement an analysis plan, write up the results and discuss the implications of the findings, and present their work in the annual Epidemiology Poster Day. Students are expected to begin their capstone project in their first term and complete it in the second term of their final year (or only, for one-year programs) of training (three credits per term, for a total of six credits). The Epidemiology Master’s committee will help students find an appropriate mentor. Details regarding the structure of capstone writing products and evaluation guidelines will be provided in the MS Student Handbook.
- Learning Objectives: The learning objectives of and skills employed in this course are determined by the specific research project. The list below (which is not exhaustive) provides examples of learning objectives for this course: 1. Assess knowledge gaps in the scientific literature; 2. Develop a scientific research question designed to address a gap in the scientific literature 3. Identify appropriate data sources to address a research question; 4. Better understand the role of data in understanding public health problems; 5. Create a data collection instrument and/or collect data; 6. Analyze data (quantitative or mixed data – including both quantitative and qualitative) to test research hypotheses relevant to public health in a manner that reflects principles of epidemiology (e.g., study design, measurement, confounding, etc); 7. Generate appropriate data visualizations and/or presentations; 8. Communicate the significance, approach, and implications of epidemiological research in a written format appropriate for the target audience; 9. Complete research ethics training through the Program for the Education and Evaluation of Responsible Research and Scholarship (PEERRS). Two modules are required: Human Subjects Research Protections and Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarship (RCRS).
- Syllabus for EPID698
