Semester:
N/A
- Professor: Marc Weisskopf, Tamara James-Todd
- Term: Spring
- Days: W
- Time: 2:00-3:30PM
- School: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Course ID: 190751
This course examines the application of epidemiologic methods to environmental and occupational health problems. Objectives are to review methods used in evaluating the health effects of physical and chemical agents in the environment, to review the available evidence on the health effects of such exposures, and to consider policy questions raised by the scientific evidence. Topics include lectures on methodology, seminars on the review and criticism of current literature, and presentations by outside experts on specific environmental and occupational health issues of current interest.
Prerequisites: ID201 or [EPI201 and (BST 201 or PHS2000A)]. Concurrent registration with instructor permission only.