Academic Calendar 2021-2022

Community Health & Epidemiology (EPID)

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EPID 206  Adv. Methods In Epidemiology  Units: 3.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 301  Principles of Epidemiology  Units: 3.00  

Basic methods involved in researching the distribution and determinants of health/disease in populations. Core principles of epidemiology are examined, as are the various epidemiological approaches to study design. The latter include descriptive (cross-sectional and ecological), observational (case-control and cohort), and experimental (randomized controlled trials) approaches.

Requirements: Prerequisite BIOL243; CHEE209; COMM162; ECON250; GPHY247; KNPE251; NURS323; PHED251; POLS385; PYSC202; SOCY211; STAM200 STAT263; STAT267; STAT269; STAT367. Exclusion No more than 3.0 units from EPID301; HLTH323; BMED270  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 401  Biostatistical Data Analysis for Life Science Students  Units: 3.00  

An applied statistics course covering practical topics in tests and confidence intervals for single and multiple samples, ANOVA, linear regression, correlations, methods for categorical data, and nonparametric methods. The lab uses statistical software. The course emphasizes analyzing data arising in life sciences using practical statistical methods.

Requirements: Prerequisite COMM 162; ECON 250; PYSC 202; SOCY 211; STAM 200; STAT 263; STAT 267; STAT 367 and (Level 4 and registration in a LISC Major or Specialization Plan) and (a GPA of 2.5).  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 499  Research Project in Epidemiology  Units: 12.00  

An examination of an epidemiological research question chosen by the student with guidance from the supervisor. Project will involve review of the literature, development of a proposal, data collection and/or processing, data analysis, a written report and oral presentation. Students will be required to attend and report on seminars of their choosing from a number of venues across campus. Limited enrolment.
NOTE Acceptance by a supervisor required prior to registration.
NOTE Students whose research requires the care and/or handling of animals must also complete the Introductory Animal Care Course and if required the appropriate Animal Use workshops through the Office of the University Veterinarian.
LEARNING HOURS 480 (288Lb;24G;24I;144P).

Requirements: Prerequisite Level 4 and registration in the LISC Specialization Plan and a cumulative GPA of 2.50 or higher and (BMED 270 or EPID 301 or HLTH 323). Corequisite EPID 401. Exclusion ANAT 499; CANC 499; LISC 499; MICR 455; MICR 499; NSCI 499; PATH 499; PHAR 499; PHGY 499; REPD 499.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 510  History Of Medicine  Units: 6.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 512  Stat Methods In Health Res.  Units: 1.98  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 520  Community Hlth & Epidemiology  Units: 6.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 522  Stat Methods In Hlth Research  Units: 6.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 595  Independent Study  Units: 6.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 799  Introduction To Animal Care  Units: 6.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 801  Introduction To Epidemiology  Units: 3.00  

This course provides foundational knowledge on how human evidence relevant to public health is created, assessed, and used, with a focus on epidemiologic methods. Topics include measures of health status; risk factors and associations with health outcomes; study design including descriptive, analytical, and intervention approaches; validity issues; critical appraisal; assessment of causation; ethics; and application of epidemiologic evidence in public health decisions.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 802  Foundations in Public Health  Units: 3.00  

This course provides an overview of theoretical and conceptual foundations of public health. It examines the social determinants of health and population health approaches to promote and protect health. It instils in students an understanding of the historical achievements, core values and ethical frameworks that guide public health action.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 803  The Canadian Health System  Units: 3.00  

The aim of this introductory course is to describe how health services are organized and delivered in Canada. Students who take the course will: 1) understand the inputs, delivery and outputs of the Canadian health system; 2) recognize and explain the factors that influence change in this system; and 3) consider current health policy issues in Canada.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 804  Intermediate Epidemiology  Units: 3.00  

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. Three term-hours, winter; every year. W. King.

Requirements: EPID801  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 805  Leading Evidence Informed Action  Units: 3.00  

The course teaches students to apply theories of leadership and change to the analysis and development of public health actions. Approaches to leading change are reviewed at a variety of levels - self, team, organization, individuals, community, government. Practical examples are drawn from the core programmatic and functional areas of public health practice and exemplify the role of the local heath unit organization in leading change.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 806  Applied Research Methods for Program Planning and Evaluation  Units: 3.00  

This course provides an overview of social research methods and tools to assist students to complete the "evidence to action" program planning and evaluation cycle. Topics covered include: defining the issue, using surveillance data, engaging the community, conducting a stakeholder analysis, survey methods, handling qualitative data, building logic models, choosing indicators, communicating the results, taking action.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 807  Economic Evaluation of Healthcare Programs  Units: 3.00  

This course is designed to allow students to become
familiar with different types of economic evaluations in healthcare and when to employ particular types of economic evaluation. Topic covered will include: cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-benefit, budget impact analyses, and policy decision-making. No prior
economics background is required. Three term hours.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 810  Controlled Clinical Trials  Units: 3.00  

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. Three term-hours, winter. R. Meyer, D. Tu

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 815  Independent Study  Units: 3.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 817  Foundations Of Cancer Control  Units: 3.00  

This course is intended for graduate students, clinical fellows and postdoctoral fellows who are engaged or interested in cancer research. 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 and clinical concepts central to the investigation of cancer; study design; clinical epidemiology; molecular epidemiology; and cancer control and prevention. Three term-hours; winter; every year. B.MacKillop.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 819  Clinical Epidemiology  Units: 3.00  

This course will demonstrate the way in which epidemiological principles guide the practice of medicine and the design of clinical research. Topics will include how to select the correct design for a study that addresses a clinical question,how to evaluate the quality of clinical publications and research proposals, and how to prepare a clinical research proposal. Three term hours,Fall every year. W. Mackillop.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 821  Essentials of Biostatistics  Units: 3.00  

This course provides an overview of basic statistical concepts, principles, and techniques essential for public health and epidemiologic research. This course covers both descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics covered include measures of association, t-tests, regression, chi-square tests, analysis of variance, and some nonparametric methods. Emphasis is on understanding and interpreting fundamental statistical analyses from health research.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 822  Applied Regression Analysis  Units: 3.00  

This course deals with the commonly used regression methods proven useful in health services research and the epidemiologic analysis of the relationship between traits, exposures or treatments, 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, logistic regression, Poisson regression and survival analysis. This course includes a compulsory SAS Programming component. PREREQUISITE: EPID-821* (or permission of instructor for Biostatistics students).

Requirements: EPID821  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 823  Advanced Methods in Biostatistics  Units: 3.00  

An advanced course in the theoretical issues and analytical practices in epidemiology, and biostatistics. Topics may vary but major topics include analysis of longitudinal and survival data using various regression models; Techniques and strategies for regression modeling; Novel analytic approaches in epidemiology; multivariate analysis methods including discriminant analysis, principal components and factor analysis. PREREQUISITE: EPID- 821* + knowledge of basic statistical modeling techniques deemed adequate by the Instructors.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 826  Determinants Of Health  Units: 3.00  

This half term course (involving 39 hours of instruction) is required for students enrolled in the Masters of Public Health Program in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology in the second year of their program. 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. Three term hours, fall; every year. B. Alvarado-Llano.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 827  Pub. Hlth Leadership & Admin.  Units: 3.00  

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. Three term hours; Winter.  Duncan Hunter.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 828  Infectious Diseases  Units: 3.00  

This course provides a foundation in infectious disease epidemiology. Principles and methods related to infectious disease biology, outbreak detection and investigation, and the methodological, analytical, and diagnostic tools are covered. Specific infectious diseases that pose contemporary challenges in public health and/or have national or global public health impact are discussed. Three term hours.
PREREQUISITE: EPID-801 or permission of the instructor.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 829  Foundations of Global Health  Units: 3.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 831  Chronic Disease Epidemiology  Units: 3.00  

This course will provide an overview of the epidemiology of some of the leading non-infectious causes of morbidity and mortality in Canada and will highlight the key methodological considerations for the study of each disease or health problem.
PREREQUISITES: EPID-801* & EPID-821* or equivalents with permission of course coordinator

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 832  Mental Health/Critical Inquiry  Units: 3.00  

This course will provide students with in-depth substantive knowledge about the evolution of health issues that have shaped policy and mental health services.
PREREQUISITES: EPID-801* or permission of course instructor

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 835  Environmental Public Health  Units: 3.00  

This course provides students with a foundation for understanding, assessing and mediating environmental exposures. Methods for assessing and communicating about exposures, risks and standards in air, water, soil and food are introduced. Case studies of managing hazardous exposures are reviewed. Environmental health policy implications of global climate, energy use and disaster planning are explored. PREREQUISITE: EPID-801, EPID-821 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 836  Qualitative Health Research Methods  Units: 3.00  

This course provides foundational instruction in qualitative research methodology for students in the public health sciences, including theoretical basis, study design, research ethics, sampling and recruitment, data collection, data analysis, and disseminating research findings. Topical areas may include ethnography, grounded theory, phenomenology, participatory research, and other areas.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 837  Health Services Research  Units: 3.00  

This course introduces health services research methods as they are applied to routinely collected health data. It covers methodologic approaches for assessing healthcare effectiveness, quality, and access. The course also provides an introduction to the Ontario ICES data holdings and the conduct of health services research using those data.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 886  Public Health Professional Development  Units: 3.00  

This course assists students to lay the foundation for continuing professional development in public health practice. Students are introduced to the personal learning portfolio and coached to chart their progress in developing skills and competencies through a combination of workshops, seminars, and on line learning modules.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 887  Practicum Placement  Units: 3.00  

The 400¿hour practicum placement provides MPH students with an opportunity to work in the public health field and contribute to evidence-informed public health practice. Through the practicum students demonstrate and enhance the knowledge, skills and attitudes they have learned from course work as well as reflect on and advance their career development. Placement activities and roles will vary according to the needs and interests of both host organization and the student. This course is graded on a
PASS/FALL basis.
PREREQUISITES: EPID 801, EPID 802, EPID 803, EPID 806, EPID 821 and EPID 886 (16-month students only), or approval from the Practicum Coordinator.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 888  Master's Practicum  Units: 6.00  

Under the guidance of the supervisor, students will carry out a practicum project in a health research group/site and practise biostatistical methods and data analysis, or conduct methodology research in a biostatistical project. Students will summarize the results of the project in a written report that will be reviewed and orally defended.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 899  Master's Thesis  Units: 6.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 901  Advanced Epidemiology  Units: 3.00  

This course provides in-depth integration of advanced concepts in epidemiology, with theory and examples, including causation and causal inference, study design and conduct, alternate designs, confounding, effect modification, internal and external validity, misclassification, source populations, statistical power and sample size, epidemiologic data analysis and interpretation, meta-analysis and selected specific research areas. This is an advanced course intended primarily for Ph.D. students. Sessions consist of lectures, seminars, student presentations and discussions. Three term- hours, fall and winter. Patti Groome and Harriet Richardson

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 902  Advanced Public Health Research  Units: 3.00  

This course provides a conceptual and historic view of the Public Health Sciences, as well as a look at contemporary issues in Public Health research ethics, research methodology and knowledge translation. Guided each year by student interests and advanced training needs, the course delves into specific substantive public health research areas including for example: chronic disease, environmental health, infectious disease, injury and disability, maternal and child health, occupational health, humanitarian contexts, Indigenous health and/or health services research.

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences  
EPID 999  Ph.D. Thesis Research  Units: 6.00  

Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences