Epidemiology – Danish Case Studies

Fall & Spring | 3 credits | Elective
Majors: Health Science, Pre-Medicine, and Public Health

By using research data from the unique and internationally renowned Danish Civil Register System, students will develop an understanding of the cause of disease in the context of the individual, community, and environment.  The course will provide an overview of epidemiologic methods as applied to the study of health and chronic disease in the Danish population.  Formal statistical modeling will be used to analyze and critique current issues and epidemiologic studies. 

This course will focus on Epidemiology as:
- A quantitative science (knowledge of probabilities)
- A method (for causal reasoning)
- A tool (for promotional and protective action)

Main registers discussed in the course include:
- The Central Population Register
- The Cancer Registry
- The Pathology Bank
- The National Patient Register
- The Medical Insurance Register
- The Cause of Death Register
- The Danish Medicines Agency Register

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Instructors

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  My von Euler-Chelpin

  Ph.D. (Public Health, University of Copenhagen, 2007). Research Consultant at UNESCO, Paris and Nairobi, and International Committee of the Red Cross, 1986-2002. Assistant Professor, Center for Epidemiology and Screening, University of Copenhagen, 2002–present. With DIS since 2011.