Why you should learn this course? 

The course will expand the student's understanding of causality and threats to validity in Epidemiological research. The focus will be on the assessment and control of bias, including Selection bias, information bias, and confounding. The concept of effect modification (Interaction) will be appraised. Students will learn how to assess effect modification and control of confounding in a variety of study designs including case-control and cohort studies.

Objectives

After full participation in this course, students will be able to:

• Overview of epidemiological study designs(Cross sectional study design,Case-control study design, Prospective study design, Clinical trial design

• Bias in epidemiological studies

• Questionnaire development and data collection  

• Concept of causality

• Standardization for rates

• Protocol development

• Ethical issues in research

• Critical review and scientific written

• Outbreak investigation

• Define epidemiological problem analysis and epidemiological approach to solve the problem

• Epidemiological surveillance of health related states and Eventsin population

• Epidemiology of health related states and events in population

• Epidemiological methods of experimental trail. Quasi experimental design