Teaching Epidemiology

A guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine

Fourth Edition

Edited by Jørn Olsen, Naomi Greene, Rodolfo Saracci, and Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Provides an introduction to recent experience and access to high-level expert advice.
A comprehensive guide for young and inexperienced teachers of epidemiology. It covers general methodology as well of more specialized topics related to diseases and health determinants.
Each chapter contains guidelines for how a course in the topic could be structured and how achievements could be evaluated. A list of key references is given for such chapters.
All the chapters are written by leading epidemiologists in their field, often with many years of teaching experience at different levels.

New to this Edition:

The book has been thoroughly revised. All chapters have been updated concerning content, style and references.
Updates to this edition reflect changes in research technologies that students should be aware of, especially in genetics (including epigenetics) and in method development (with particular relevance to causal analyses and causal presentations).

Teaching Epidemiology

A guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine

Fourth Edition

Edited by Jørn Olsen, Naomi Greene, Rodolfo Saracci, and Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Description

Teaching epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. The new edition of Teaching Epidemiology helps you to do this and, by providing world-expert teachers' advice on how best to structure teaching, providing a unique insight into what has worked in their hands. This book will help you to tailor your own epidemiology teaching programme.

The fourth edition of this established text has been fully revised and updated, drawing on new research findings and recently developed methods including research technologies in genetic epidemiology and method development in relation to causal analysis. Analytical tools provide teachers in the field with the skills to guide students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Each chapter in Teaching Epidemiology comprises key concepts in epidemiology, subject specific methodologies, and disease specific issues, to provide expert assistance in the teaching of a wide range of epidemiology courses.

Teaching Epidemiology

A guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine

Fourth Edition

Edited by Jørn Olsen, Naomi Greene, Rodolfo Saracci, and Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Part 1: Context
1:Introducing the history of epidemiology, Rodolfo Saracci
2:Important concepts in epidemiology, Olli S. Miettinen
3:Study Design, Jørn Olsen and Olga Basso
4:Statistics in epidemiology, Per Kragh Andersen
5:Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods, Kenneth J. Rothman and Sherri O. Stuver
Part 2: Exposure-oriented Epidemiology
6:Questionnaires in epidemiology, Jakob Bue Bjørner and Jørn Olsen
7:Environment, Anders Ahlbom
8:Occupational epidemiology, Neil Pearce
9:Life course epidemiology, Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Diana Kuh
10:Pharmacoepidemiology, Susan Jick
11:Nutritional epidemiology, Walter C. Willett
12:Genetic epidemiology, Harry Campbell and Susan Service
13:Teaching molecular epidemiology, Betsy Foxman
14:Social inequalities in health, Nancy Krieger
15:Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom, Ulisses Confalonieri and Shilu Tong
Part 3: Outcome-oriented Epidemiology
16:Infectious disease epidemiology, Marc Lipsitch
17:Cancer epidemiology, Pagona Lagiou and Dimitrios Trichopoulos
18:Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology, Rebecca Fuhrer and Kelly K. Anderson
19:Neurologic diseases, C. A. Molgaard, A. L. Golbeck, and J. F. Rothrock
20:Reproductive epidemiology, Jørn Olsen and Ellen Aagaard Nøhr
21:Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology, Josep M. Anto
22:Epidemiology of injuries, Eleni Petridou, Patricia Gerakopoulou and Constantine N. Antonopoulos
23:Dental epidemiology, Georgios Tsakos and Vibeke Baelum
24:Clinical epidemiology, John A. Baron, Henrik Toft Sørensen, and Harold C. Sox, Jr.
25:Study of clustering and outbreaks, Paul Elliott and Anna Hansell
26:Registries and medical databases, Henrik Toft Sørensen And John A. Baron
27:Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom, J. H. Abrahamson
Part 4: Pedagogies
28:Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology, Naomi Greene and Tarun Bhatnagar

Teaching Epidemiology

A guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine

Fourth Edition

Edited by Jørn Olsen, Naomi Greene, Rodolfo Saracci, and Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Author Information

Edited by Jørn Olsen, Professor and Former Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Heath, California, USA and Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark, Naomi Greene, Assistant Researcher, Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Rodolfo Saracci, Director of Research in Epidemiology, National Council, Pisa, Italy; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Scientific Consultant, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, and Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Jørn Olsen is Professor of Epidemiology at AU, SDU and UCLA. Have published books and articles in several fields of epidemiology but most of the work has been in reproductive health.

Naomi Greene holds a Ph.D in Epidemiology and MPH in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She has an extensive clinical background in maternal and child health which guides her research interest in lifecourse epidemiology and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.

Dimitrios Trichopoulos MD, PhD, is Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Member of the Athens Academy and President of the Hellenic Health Foundation, Greece. He has served as director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention; chairman of the Epidemiology Departments at the University of Athens and at Harvard; and adjunct professor of medical epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Dr. Trichopoulos has received several awards and distinctions, including honorary Doctorates, the Brinker International Award for Breast Cancer Clinical Research, the Julius Richmond Award, and the Medal of Honor of the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Contributors:

J.H. Abramson, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Anders Ahlbom, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Per Kragh Andersen, Institute of Public Health, Dept. Of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Kelly K. Anderson, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Josep M. Anto, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain

Constantine N. Antonopoulos, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Vibeke Baelum, Department of Dentistry, Health, Aarhus University, Denmark

John A. Baron, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Olga Basso, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University , Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Yoav Ben-Shlomo, School of Social and Community Medicine, Bristol UK

Tarun Bhatnagar, National Institute of Epidemiology (Indian Council of Medical Research), Tamil Nadu Housing Board, Ayapakkam, Chennai, India

Jakob Bue Bjørner, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark

Harry Campbell, Centre for Population Health Sciences and Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK

Ulisses Confalonieri, Laboratory on Eduaction for Health and the Environment (LAESA), Brazilian Ministry of Health, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Paul Elliott, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK

Betsy Foxman, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, USA

Rebecca Fuhrer, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University , Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Patricia Gerakopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Athens, Greece

A. L. Golbeck, The School of Public and Community Health Sciences, The University of Montana, USA

Naomi Greene, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, USA

Anna Hansell, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK

Susan Jick, Professor of Epidemiology, Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, Boston University School of Public Health, USA

Nancy Krieger, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Diana Kuh, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, London, UK

Pagona Lagiou, University of Athens Medical School and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Marc Lipsitch, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Olli S. Miettinen, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

C. A. Molgaard,The School of Public and Community Health Sciences, The University of Montana, USA

Ellen Aagaard Nøhr, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Odense University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Jørn Olsen, Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Neil Pearce, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Eleni Petridou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Greece

Kenneth J. Rothman, RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

John F. Rothrock, Division of Neurosciences University of Nevada and Reno School of Medicine, USA

Rodolfo Saracci, Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark

Susan Service, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Harold C. Sox, Jr., The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, USA

Sherri O. Stuver, ScD, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Henrik Toft Sørensen, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Georgios Tsakos , Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London, UK

Walter C. Willett, Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA