Community Health and Epidemiology
Queen's UniversityCourses
Students must take seven core courses and three elective courses:
- Core Courses offered by the Department
- Elective Courses offered by the Department
- Elective Courses available from other Departments
Core Courses Offered by the Department
EPID 801: Introduction to Epidemiology |
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This course deals with the design and analysis of research in epidemiology. Topics include measures of health status; risk factors and associations between them; study design including descriptive, analytical, experimental, and theoretical approaches; validity issues; critical appraisal; sources of data, and data collection and management. |
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Fall | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): K. Aronson | ||
EPID 812: Program Evaluation |
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| This course provides an introduction to public health program evaluation methods. The intent is to familiarize the student with the major issues, methods and challenges faced by program evaluators working in the public health field. The emphasis will be on conceptual approaches and design issues, as well as the interpretation and applicatin of evaluation findings. |
EPID812 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered:Winter | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): D. Hunter | ||
EPID 821: Introductory Biostatistics |
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| This course introduces the basis statistical concepts, principles and techniques essential for community health and epidemiologic research. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability distribution, estimation, hypothesis testing, simple linear regression, correlation and measures of association, and some non-parametric methods. |
EPID821 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Fall | Frequency Offered: Every Year | |
| Instructor(s): B. Chen, K.Ding, P. Peng | |||
| EPID821 Lab/SAS Tutorial Instructors: A. Day, J. Zhang-Salomons | |||
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Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor. |
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EPID 825: Foundations of Public Health Practice |
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| This is an introductory course in public health. The course will introduce students to health promotion and health protection strategies at various levels, including the individual, community, region and nation. Examples will be drawn from chronic disease and injury prevention, reproductive and child health, infectious disease prevention and control, and environmental health. Students will also be introduced to the role of surveillance in determining public health priorities. | Outline Not Available at the Moment | ||
| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Fall | Frequency Offered: Every Year | |
| Instructor(s): K. O'Connor | |||
EPID 826: Determinants of Health |
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| This half term course is required for students enrolled in the Master's of Public Health program in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology. This course examines the determinants of health from a population health perspective, including social, cultural and economic factors; physical environmental factors; personal health practices; individual coping skills; and health services. |
EPID826 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered:Fall | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): B. Alvarado | ||
| Prerequisite: either EPID 801 or EPID 821 | ||
| Note: For MPH students, required in their second year. | ||
EPID 827: Public Health Leadership and Administration |
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This course provides an introduction to public health leadership and administration. The intent is to familiarize with the main components of the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services in Canada. Students will also learn principles of strategic planning, public health marketing, the legal and ethical basis for public health interventions, and systems thinking for resolving community health and organizational problems. Finally, the course will build competencies in critical thinking and communication skills necessary for public health practice.
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EPID827 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered:Fall | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): D. Hunter | ||
| Prerequisite: EPID 825 | ||
| Note: For MPH students, required in their second year. | ||
EPID 828: Infectious Diseases |
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| This course provides an introduction to the principles of infectious disease prevention and control relevant to public health practice. The course focuses on the etiology, history, societal impacts and determinants of infectious diseases of major public health importance. There is an emphasis on modern prevention and control efforts that can be applied at the local, national and international levels. |
EPID828 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Winter | Frequency Offered: every year |
| Instructor(s): A. Jolly | ||
| Prerequisites: EPID 801 and EPID 821 | ||
EPID 886: Public Health Skills |
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EPID 886 is the first of two required practica. The aim of this course is to provide students with the technical skills necessary to perform a variety of professional functions in a community agency. Through a combination of workshops, seminars, and guest lectures, students will acquire some of the essential public health skills in preparation for their placement in a public health agency (Practicum II). This course is evaluated on a pass/fail basis. |
EPID886 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/year: 36 hours total | Semesters Offered: Fall | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Coordinator: Alison Young | ||
EPID 887: Practicum |
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| This four month practicum is the second of two which are requirements of the program. It is offered in the Spring/Summer term and is intended to provide students with an opportunity to apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills acquired from their course-work in a supervised public health setting. Students will have an opportunity to work as part of an interdisciplinary public health team in a substantive area that is of interest to the student and of importance to the sponsoring public health agency. | Outline Not Available at the Moment | |
| Time/Week: 25 hours | Semesters Offered: Spring/Summer | Frequency Offered:Every Year |
| Coordinator: Colleen Davison | ||
Elective Courses Offered by the Department
EPID 803: Health Services and Policy Applications |
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| This survey course will provide an overview of the health, health service, and policy context in which epidemiologic and health service methods are applied. Secondly, it is intended to provide a brief introduction to selected research areas available for more in depth study through elective courses. Topics include: public health and health determinants; health services and the health care system; health economics and cost evaluations; and health policy and policy analysis. |
EPID803 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Fall | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): A.Johnson | ||
EPID 804: Advanced Epidemiologic Methods |
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| This course deals with advanced methods and issues in the design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiologic studies. The content focuses on observational study design and analysis, and builds on epidemiologic principles presented in EPID-801. Data analysis will emphasize the application and interpretation of statistical concepts in epidemiologic research. |
EPID804 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Winter | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): W. King | ||
| Prerequisites: EPID 801 | ||
EPID 807: Introduction to Health Economics |
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| This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to economic concepts and analysis relevant to health, health care, and health care systems. Topics include: health as an economic variable; health production models; uncertainty in health and its effects; the behaviour and influence of various participants (health care providers, patients, government) on health care utilization and health status. No prior economic background is required, although students must have basic quantitative skills | Not available at the moment | |
| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Winter | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): A. Johnson | ||
EPID 810: Controlled Clinical Trials |
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| This course will cover material relevant to the design and conduct of controlled clinical trials. Design topics will include methods used to achieve unbiased results with improved precision, such as adequate sample size, randomization, blinding, pre- and post-stratification, cross-over designs, placebos and the counting of relevant events. Attention will be given to the problems of conducting multi-centre clinical trials. Topics covered will include drafting of protocols, design of data forms, logistics of data flow, methods of follow-up, data management and quality control, periodic reporting, final data analysis, and the production of final reports. Ethical issues and the role of randomized trials in clinical investigation will be discussed. |
EPID810 Course Notes.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Winter | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): R. Meyer, D. Tu | ||
EPID 815: Independent Study |
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| Designed for individual students with special interests that are not covered by existing courses offered in the Department. Normally, this will take the form of a closely supervised reading course in the area of a graduate instructor's expertise but may also include practical field experience. The proposed study must be approved by the appropriate instructor, the Coordinator of Graduate Studies and the Head of the Department. | Not available at the moment | |
EPID 817: Foundations of Cancer Control |
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This course is intended for graduate students, clinical fellows and postdoctoral fellows who are engaged or interested in cancer research. It will provide students with training in the fundamentals of epidemiologic methods in cancer research and with knowledge of how epidemiology could contribute to better understanding of cancer etiology and control in human populations. The course will focus on concepts and methodological issues central to the conduct of epidemiologic studies of cancer etiology and control. Topics will include: an introduction to basic epidemiologic concepts; biologic concepts central to the investigation of cancer; study design; clinical epidemiology; molecular epidemiology; and cancer control and prevention. |
EPID817 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Winter | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): H. Richardson | ||
EPID 822: Intermediate Statistics for Epidemiologists |
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| This course deals with the commonly used statistical methods proven useful in health services research and the epidemiologic analysis of the relationship between traits, exposures or treatment, and diseases or other medical outcomes. The course emphasizes the statistical modeling approach with topics including multiple regression, analysis of variance and covariance, reliability of measurements, analysis of categorical data, and logistic regression. |
EPID822 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Winter | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
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Instructor(s):
M. Lam, B. Chen, K. Ding, D. Tu |
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EPID 822 Lab/SAS Tutorial Instructors: A. Day, J. Zhang-Salomons |
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| Prerequisite: EPID 821 or equivalent* (*applicable to Biostats Collaborative students only) | ||
EPID 823: Advanced Methods in Biostatistics |
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| An advanced course in the theoretical issues and analytic practices in epidemiology and biostatistics. Major topics include the life-table method, demography and confounding and its solutions. Detailed design and analysis of cohort, care-referent and experimental studies shall be performed. Multifactor techniques including log-linear logistic and Cox's proportional hazard models will be discussed in detail. | Not available at the moment | |
| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Fall | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): M, Lam, P. Peng, D. Tu | ||
| Prerequisites: EPID 822 | ||
EPID 829: Foundations in Global Health |
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Students will be exposed to various global health concepts and be trained to work through potential solutions in a public health context. The course will be taught through formal lecture, seminar and small group learning, and online modules. Topics may include: health, public health and development; Aboriginal health; health systems and policies; Canada's role in global health and social justice; and special populations. |
EPID829 Course Outline.pdf
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Winter | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): K. Yeates | ||
EPID 833: Issues in Military and Veteran Health Research |
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Students are exposed to health issues associated with military experience which includes both veterans and military families. As a weekly webinar, the course will include presentations from Canadian specialists who will contextualize military mental and physical health needs and introduce theoretical and methodological approaches to conducting applied health research among this population.
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| Time/Week: Three term-hours | Semesters Offered: Fall | Frequency Offered: Every Year |
| Instructor(s): S. Belanger, W. Mackillop | ||
Elective Courses Available from Other Departments
Geography |
GPHY 855:
Spatial Analysis
GPHY 887: The Geography of Health and Health Care |
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RHBS 802: Disability in the Community |
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies |
KHS 830: Health Promotion Research Seminar KHS 831: Social Networks/Relations & Health KHS 862: Community-based Programming |
School of Policy Studies |
MPA 820:
Principles of Management
MPA 837: Management in Health Care |
School of Urban and Regional Planning |
SURP 861: Healthy Community Planning |