Welcome

Welcome to Spring 2022 Advanced Methods in Social Epidemiology! I am so excited to meet you all and to work with you throughout this semester. We will start the semester with synchronous but virtual class sessions, at least through the end of January, per Emory University policy. It is my hope that it will be possible for us to safely return to in-person at that time. Regardless, I am confident that we will have an engaging and interesting time together.

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All class sessions in January (and possibly longer depending on University policy) will be held every Monday and Friday from 1-2:20 PM Eastern Time.

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Course Description

Social epidemiology is the rapidly evolving sub-field of epidemiology that is interested in describing and explaining the social distribution and determinants of population health. Social epidemiology shares with its parent discipline many of the methodological challenges common to observational research. However, several issues are so ubiquitous in social epidemiology as to warrant special attention, including incorporation of meaningful social theory, engagement with moral and ethical issues in research, multilevel causal mechanisms, and complex social selection and confounding. This course introduces concepts and applications in several areas including the measurement of health inequalities, challenges to causal inference in social epidemiology, and multi-level thinking and analysis.

This advanced graduate course is a blended seminar and lab format introducing students to some of the challenges of quantitative research in modern social epidemiology. The course is designed to provide students with a strong interest in quantitative analysis in the social determinants of health the necessary background and skills to identify methodological challenges and identify appropriate design and analytic approaches to address them.

To review the competencies, assessments, and schedule go the Syllabus Page. To quickly get to the page for each week, go to the Modules Page.

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