Schedule

Class	Topic
1 (9/5)	The course as a learning community
2 (9/12)	Fundamental ideas and basic vocabulary
3 (9/19)	Phenomena: Exploring the "natural history" of disease
4 (9/26)	Categories
5 (10/3)	Associations, Predictions, Causes, and Interventions
6 (10/10)	Confounders & conditioning of analyses
7 (10/17)	a. Variations in health care (by place, race, class, gender) b. Heterogeneity within populations and subgroups
8 (10/24)	Placing individuals in a multileveled context
	Mid-semester assessment
9 (10/31)	Life course epidemiology
10 (11/7)	Multivariable "structural" models of development
11 (11/14)	Work-in-progress presentations
12 (11/21)	Heritability, heterogeneity, and group differences
13 (11/28)	Genetic diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and surveillance
14 (12/5)	Popular epidemiology and health-based social movements
15 (12/12)	Taking Stock of Course: Where have we come and what do we need to learn to go further?

Citation: cchewadmin. (2008, July 03). Schedule. Retrieved November 06, 2014, from UMass Boston OpenCourseware Web site: http://ocw.umb.edu/public-policy/epidemiological-thinking-for-non-specialists/schedule.