IEA 4th International Course on Epidemiological Methods
Hosted by Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Application Deadline: November 1, 2011
Website: http://bit.ly/pVbJK1
The IEA is offering an intermediate level residential course on epidemiological methods, which will include lectures, computer-based analyses, exercises, discussion sessions, and practical experience in the design of a research proposal. The course will be of interest to epidemiologists, public health professionals, statisticians, and clinicians.
In addition to epidemiological study design and analyses, special one-day modules will cover social epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, causal inference, meta-analyses and how to write and publish scientific articles.
The course directors are Cesar Victora (
The faculty also includes Patricia Buffler (USA), George Davey-Smith (
Overview of the Course
• Descriptive epidemiology
• Study design options (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, intervention studies)
• Study design issues (confounding, selection bias, information bias, effect modification)
• Data analysis (stratified analysis, multivariable analysis)
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
• Social epidemiology
• Genetic epidemiology
• Causal inference
• Writing and publishing epidemiological research (conducted by the editorial team of the International Journal of Epidemiology
Planning Secretariat:
Ms. Carole Laflamme
607 Notre-Dame Saint-Lambert, QC J4P 2K8 Canada
E-mail: carole@iseventsolutions.com
Phone: +1-450-550-3488 ext. 114 Fax: +1-514-227-5083
The working language of the course will be English, and participants will be expected to have sufficient knowledge of spoken and written English
to participate actively in discussions
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