Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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BI 209 - Special Topics: Epidemiology


Credits: 3

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the field of epidemiology in the forefront of the minds of the global population. This course will help you understand the fundamentals of the field of epidemiology. Specifically, this course provides an overview of the applications and methods of epidemiology that are utilized to study the distribution and determinants of health and diseases, morbidity, mortality, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations. We will discuss study design, causation, vs. association, causal inference, and other quantitative approaches to evaluate the controls of conditions such as infectious and chronic diseases, community and environmental health hazards, and injuries. 



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