EPID160/EPID600, Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health

Instructors: Victor J. Schoenbach, Lorraine K. Alexander

University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

Department of Epidemiology


Lectures

The following titles link to the Powerpoint slides for the EPID160/EPID600 lectures. The files include verbatim speaker notes. Recorded versions for these lectures (most from fall 2002, but some recorded since then) are available through the Blackboard course website. Most of the recordings are also available at the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training Site. Links to the first three lectures can be found in this document. These lectures are made available for your personal use, though I also provide them to instructors. If you would like to use all or parts of these lectures in your teaching or for other purposes, kindly obtain permission from Victor_Schoenbach@unc.edu.

Please note - the slides are on my epidemiolog.net website, so the URL's will begin with: www.epidemiolog.net/epid160/lectures/. The lectures are being updated and re-recorded during fall 2007 - spring 2008.

  1. Introduction (updated 8/15/2007)   Audio tutorial

  2. Studying populations (4MB; corrected 9/8/2005; updates 5/7/2007)

  3. Epidemiologic measures - Incidence and prevalence (corrected 8/17/2009)

  4. Natural history of disease / Population screening (minor updates 1/9/2007)

  5. Study designs: Intervention studies (minor updates 1/9/2007)

  6. Study designs: Cross-sectional studies (updated 10/17/2006)

  7. Study designs: Cohort studies (minor updates 1/9/2007)

  8. Study designs: Case-control studies (updated 1/29/2007)

  9. Selection bias (updated 10/24/2006)

  10. Information bias (updated 10/26/2009)

  11. Confounding (updated 11/13/2007)

  12. Data analysis and causal inference

  13. Overview and concluding comments - Epidemiology and public health (updated 10/26/2009)

 

5/8/2009, 8/17/2009, 10/26/2009