Environmental Epidemiology [EXC05]
Course highlights
EC points
1.1
Months
Course days
Monday to Friday (except Wednesday)
Faculty
Peter Baxter, PhD
Location
University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
Prerequisites
Suggested pre-requisite modules: Bayesian approaches, rare or extreme events stats and distributions.
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Description
This intensive 3,5 day module focuses on methodologies in environmental epidemiology with examples from current topics such as air pollution, exposure assessment, cluster analysis, risk assessment using occupational epidemiology, consequences of climate change on health, uses and misuses of GIS, conflicts and disasters. Most public health epidemiology courses neglect or gloss over environmental hazards, including the role of occupational epidemiology, and this module is designed to redress the balance.Lecturers will introduce the topics.
Teaching will be comprised of one-hour lectures and practical sessions. Students will work in small groups in the practical sessions, which will take a variety of forms, including additional lectures, group work, discussions and data interpretation and calculation. Students are expected to read around topic areas.
Objectives
- Hot topics: climate change, air pollution.
- Epi methods: time series, GIS, spatial epi – clusters,point pollution sources; climate change impacts modelling, risk assessment,communicating risk, evidence-base for policy making, occupational epi and toxic exposure assessment.
Participant profile
For a very limited number of NIHES students only.
Assessment
Attendance
Reduction on fees
PLEASE NOTE: This does not apply to the fee of the research master programmes (120 EC points)
No fees are charged for Erasmus MC PhD candidates, provided they have an account in Hora Finita, the Erasmus University PhD registration system. When submitting the application, you can state that someone else pays your tuition fee.
In case of cancellation or no show, the cancellation policy applies based on the full course fee.
25% reduction for all (international) PhD candidates without formal appointment at Erasmus MC
Upon receipt of your application you will receive a request to upload proof of enrollment as a PhD candidate.