Rachel Hanisch: Office hours--Mondays, 4:00-4:50, HSE E212.  email: hanischr@u.washington.edu
Theresa Hastert: Office hours--Thursdays, 3:30-4:20, HSE E214.    email: thastert@u.washington.edu

Epidemiologic methods for non-epi majors. This class focuses on research designs and methods to describe measures of disease occurrence and risk factor associations, and uses quantitative and biomedical information to infer whether causal relationships exist between potential causes (risk or protective factors) and diseases in populations. How chance, bias, confounding and effect modification act to influence the interpretation of these potential associations is central to the overall goal. While specific diseases are used as examples, there is no attempt to provide detailed epidemiologic description of any disease or condition, the focus is on research methods.