週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
Week 1 |
9/7 |
Orientation
Introduction of Epidemiology in Global Health |
Week 2 |
9/14 |
Natural History of Disease
Dynamics of Disease Transmission |
Week 3 |
9/21 |
Measuring the Occurrence of Disease
Survey, Sampling, and Prototype of Epidemiologic Study Designs |
Week 4 |
9/28 |
Risk and Relative Risk (Assignment 1) |
Week 5 |
10/5 |
Causal Inferences, Bias, Confounding, and Interaction (Assignment 2) |
Week 6 |
10/12 |
Cohort Study 1: Principles |
Week 7 |
10/19 |
Cohort Study 2: Standardization & Lifetable (Assignment 3) |
Week 8 |
10/26 |
Midterm exam (20%) |
Week 9 |
11/2 |
Case-Control Study 1: Principles |
Week 10 |
11/9 |
Case-Control Study 2: Mantel-Haenszel methods & selection bias versus confounding (Assignment 4) |
Week 11 |
11/16 |
Special Topic: Causal Inference in Psychiatric Epidemiology: How to ask and answer a meaningful research question? (Speech given 12:30-13:20 at Room 505 by Dr. Chao-Yu Liu, MD, PhD) |
Week 12 |
11/23 |
Diagnosis, Tests, and Screening |
Week 13 |
11/30 |
Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) 1: Philosophy and Practical Issues of RCTs (Assignment 5) |
Week 14 |
12/7 |
Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) 2: Analysis and Interpretation & Discussion |
Week 15 |
12/14 |
Review for Final Exam |
Week 16 |
12/21 |
Final written exam (30%)
Review & Discussion |