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December 20, 2022
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Description
This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease.
Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical methods; evaluation of human exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions with cellular components, and biological effects; and qualitative and quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S. as bases for regulatory decision-making. Throughout the term, students consider case studies of local and national interest.
Course Curriculum
- Introductory Lecture Unlimited
- From the Real World to Hollywood and Back Again Unlimited
- Epidemiology: Persons, Places, and Time Unlimited
- Epidemiology: Test Development and Relative Risk Unlimited
- Biostatistics: Concepts in Variance Unlimited
- Confidence Intervals Unlimited
- Biostatistics: Detecting Differences and Correlations Unlimited
- Biostatistics: Poisson Analyses and Power Unlimited
- Environetics: Cause and Effect Unlimited
- Environetics: Putting it all together – Evaluating Studies Unlimited
- Evaluating Environmental Causes of Mesothelioma Unlimited
- Quantitative Risk Assessment 2 Unlimited
- Quantitative Risk Assessment 3 Unlimited
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