VTPMD 6640 - Introduction to Epidemiology

Fall. 3 credits. S–U or letter grade option.

Co-requisite: BTRY 6010 (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) or permission of instructor.

Y. Grohn.

Lectures and discussion deal with the fundamentals of epidemiology. Topics include outbreak investigation, causal association, data quality, the design and ethical constraints of clinical trials, and infectious-disease epidemiology.