Courses - Spring 2027
EPIB301
Epidemiology for Public Health Practice
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Must be enrolled in a major in SPHL-School of Public Health; and must have earned a minimum of 45 credits.
An examination of the discipline of epidemiology and its application to public health issues and practices, covering current epidemiological concepts and methods.
EPIB315
Biostatistics for Public Health Practice
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in EPIB301.
Restriction: Must be enrolled in the Public Health Science, Public Health Practice, or Global Health majors.
Credit only granted for: EPIB300 or EPIB315.
Formerly: EPIB300.
An examination of biostatistical concepts and procedures as they relate to contemporary issues in public health. Focus on applications, hands-on-experience, and interpretations of statistical findings in public health research.
EPIB330
Introduction to Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: EPIB301.
Introduces students to the study of infectious disease through the application of epidemiologic methods. Students will review how infectious diseases impact global health, and examine epidemiological concepts related to infectious disease. These concepts include infectious disease transmission, prevention and control; study design; and outbreak and epidemic investigations. Infectious disease topics of concern to public health professionals will be covered including the COVID-19 pandemic, sexually transmitted infections, foodborne infections, healthcare-acquired infections and neglected tropical diseases, and future trends in the field of infectious diseases.
EPIB399
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
EPIB463
Introduction to Programming in R
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: EPIB315.
Jointly offered with: EPIB695.
Credit only granted for: EPIB463 or EPIB695.
An introduction to basic programming in R; including principles, data analysis tasks such as the calculation of summary statistics and the creation of graphs; and the implementation of statistical analysis concepts such as T-tests, ANOVA and correlation.
EPIB611
Intermediate Epidemiology
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B- in EPIB610.
Analysis of epidemiologic methods as applied to epidemiologic research, analysis of bias, confounding, effect modification issues, overview of design, implementation, and analysis of epidemiologic studies.
EPIB620
Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Prerequisite: Must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in SPHL602; or EPIB610.
Overview of prevalence and risk factors for major chronic diseases. Discussion of methodological issues unique to specific chronic disease.
EPIB637
Social Epidemiologic Methods in Health Equity Research
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B- in SPHL602 or EPIB610; or permission of instructor.
Provides students with the knowledge and skills to design and implement social epidemiology studies related to investigating health inequities. Presents an overview of drivers of health inequities (e.g., racism, socioeconomic status) and conceptual and methodological challenges in empirically investigating these social determinants of health including issues related to confounding, selection bias, measurement error, and evaluation of mechanisms. Covers methodological approaches that can be used to address these challenges including instrumental variable analyses, difference-in-differences, mediation analyses using inverse odds ratio weighting, and qualitative analyses. This knowledge will be applied to exploring research questions of your choice. The course will foster a co-learning environment and recognize the value and strength of interdisciplinary perspectives. Curiosity and critical thinking are encouraged and supported.
EPIB651
Applied Regression Analysis
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B- in EPIB650.
Recommended: EPIB697 or previous experience working with SAS is highly recommended.
An introduction to important statistical methods used in public health research, including nonparametric hypothesis testing, ANOVA, simple and multiple linear regression, logistic regression, and categorical data analysis.
EPIB653
Applied Survival Data Analysis
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: EPIB651.
Overview of statistical methods for anlayzing censored survival data, including the Kaplan-Meier estimator, the log-rank test, Cox PH model.
EPIB660
Analysis of National Health Survey Data
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: EPIB650; or permission from Instructor.
Recommended: EPIB697.
Provides background on how features such as stratification, clustering, and unequal sample selection probabilities can invalidate the assumptions underlying traditional statistical techniques, those implicitly assuming a simple random sampling with replacement design. Application using the SURVEY family of SAS/STAT procedures (Version 9.4 or later).
EPIB684
Epidemiologic Research Using Healthcare Databases
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of B- in EPIB610; or equivalent; and a minimum grade of B- in EPIB697; or previous programming experience in SAS through other courses and/or activities with permission from the instructor.
Teaches students how to use health data, like electronic health records (EHR), hospital discharge records, and administrative claims (e.g., Medicare), for epidemiologic studies. Students will gain an understanding of how health data are generated through healthcare utilization and claims for reimbursement sent to payors from physicians, hospitals, and pharmacies. Students will also learn about coding nomenclature, including ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes, ICD-10-CM and CPT procedure codes, and medication coding systems. Students will be given access to a sample of health data to learn how to identify patient populations, identify comorbidities and other measures of health and healthcare utilization, and conduct studies on healthcare utilization and outcomes. Students will also learn about current hot topics in health data, including common data models, how social determinants of health can impact health data and introduce bias, risk prediction and AI, and data linkage.
EPIB695
Introduction to R for Health Data Analysis
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Jointly offered with: EPIB463.
Credit only granted for: EPIB463 or EPIB695.
A hands-on introduction to the statistical package R for health data management and analysis. The first part of the course focuses on basic and essential data manipulation and visualization using R. The second part emphasizes the use of R in statistical analyses, including summarization, correlation, chi-squared test, t-tests, ANOVA, simple and multiple regression. Students will also learn fundamental R language programming to perform user-defined calculations. No previous knowledge of R or of statistical analysis are assumed.
EPIB740
Advanced Methods in Epidemiology
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Prerequisite: EPIB650, EPIB610, EPIB612, EPIB651, and EPIB611.
In-depth investigation of epidemiologic methods for making causal inferences and solving complex methodological problems. Multivariate models emphasized.
EPIB778
Practical Experience in Public Health
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg
EPIB786
Capstone Project in Public Health
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Permission of SPHL-Epidemiology & Biostatistics department.
Restriction: Must be enrolled in the Master of Public Health program in Biostatistics or Epidemiology.
Capstone experience providing opportunity to apply knowledge and skills to a specific public health problem or issue. Completion of project relevant to public health under the direction of an advisor.
EPIB798
Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
EPIB799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
EPIB898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
EPIB899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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