The readings in the table below are from the following course textbooks:
Gordis, L. Epidemiology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier, 2004. ISBN: 0721603262.
Schork, M. A., and R. D. Remington. Statistics with Applications to the Biological and Health Sciences. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000. ISBN: 0130223271.
Course Readings
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
INSTRUCTORS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Introductory Lecture |
Prof. James Sherley
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
Dr. Laura Green |
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| 2 |
Watch film A Civil Action |
Prof. James Sherley
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
Dr. Laura Green |
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| 3 |
From the Real World to Hollywood and Back Again |
Dr. Laura Green |
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| 4 |
Epidemiology: Persons, Places, and Time |
Prof. James Sherley |
Gordis. Chapters 1 and 2. |
| 5 |
Epidemiology: Test Development and Relative Risk |
Prof. James Sherley |
Gordis. Chapters 3-5, 11, and 12.
Schork and Remington. Sections 8-1, 8-5, 8-6-2, and 8-8. |
| 6 |
Biostatistics: Concepts in Variance |
Prof. James Sherley |
Schork and Remington. Chapters 1 and 2, sections 4-1, 4-2, 4-4 to 4-7. |
| 7 |
Biostatistics: Distribution and the Mean
Confidence Intervals |
Prof. James Sherley |
Schork and Remington. Sections 5-1, 5-2, 5-4, 5-6-1, 5-6-2, 5-6-8, 6-0, 6-1, 6-2, 7-7, and 7-7-1. |
| 8 |
Biostatistics: Detecting Differences and Correlations |
Prof. James Sherley |
Schork and Remington. Sections 6-3, 7-2, 7-3, 7-4, 10-1 to 10-4, and 10-6. |
| 9 |
Biostatistics: Poisson Analyses and Power |
Prof. James Sherley |
Schork and Remington. Sections 3-0, 3-1, 5-2, 5-5, 6-7, 7-0, 7-1, 9-1, 9-1-1, 9-1-2-3, and 14-3. |
| 10 |
Environetics: Cause and Effect |
Prof. James Sherley |
Gordis. Chapters 14-16. |
| 11 |
Environetics: Study Design - Retrospective versus Prospective |
Prof. James Sherley |
Gordis. Chapters 7-10, and 13.
Hecht, S. S., et al. "Metabolites of a Tobacco-specific Lung Carcinogen in the Urine of Elementary School-aged Children." Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 10 (November 2001): 1109–1116.
Hunt, P. A., et al. "Bisphenol A Exposure Causes Meiotic Aneuploidy in the Female Mouse." Current Biology 13 (April 1, 2003): 546–553.
Proctor, R. N. "Tobacco and the global lung cancer epidemic." Nature Reviews Cancer 1 (October 2001): 82-86. |
| 12 |
Environetics: Putting it all together - Evaluating Studies |
Prof. James Sherley |
Selected readings of original literature. |
| 13 |
Quiz #1: Epidemiology-Biostatistics |
Prof. James Sherley |
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| 14 |
Evaluating Environmental Causes of Mesothelioma |
Prof. James Sherley |
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| 15 |
Quantitative Risk Assessment 1 |
Dr. Laura Green |
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| 16 |
Quantitative Risk Assessment 2 |
Dr. Laura Green |
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| 17 |
Toxicology 1 |
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum |
Wogan, G. N., et al. "Environmental and chemical carcinogenesis." Seminars in Cancer Biology 14 (2004): 473–486. |
| 18 |
Toxicology 2 |
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum |
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| 19 |
Toxicology 3 |
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum |
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| 20 |
Toxicology 4 |
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum |
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| 21 |
Toxicology 5 |
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum |
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| 22 |
Quantitative Risk Assessment 3 |
Dr. Laura Green |
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| 23 |
Quantitative Risk Assessment 4 |
Dr. Laura Green |
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| 24 |
Quiz #2: QRA-Toxicology |
Dr. Laura Green
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum |
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| 25 |
Classroom Presentations of Team Projects |
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| 26 |
Classroom Presentations of Team Projects (cont.) |
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