Enrollment is by instructor permission only. Preference will be given tomore advanced students (juniors/seniors), but sophomores will also be considered.

In the two decades since 9/11, the overwhelming majority of research on health effects has focused on first responders, leaving a critical gap in knowledge regarding effects on womens health, health in younger populations, and health in residentially exposed individuals more generally. The NYU WTC Health Study aims to address this challenge with a survey of all undergraduates who were in NYU dorms on 9/11. Using the applied example of the NYU WTC Health Study, this course will introduce studentsto a range of skills necessary for conducting health survey research, including methods for literature review, survey item development, surveysampling and respondent tracing, ethics of human subjects researchin survey contexts, and approaches to communicating research findings for ageneral audience.