Epidemiology: Synthetical, Methodologica

The overall objective of this course is to build on previous knowledge acquired by students in the core quantitative lasses, and familiarize students with novel synthetical, methodological and analytical approaches to (clinical) epidemiology in the age of big-data, emphasize the import of critical thinking, while putting it into social, person-centered context. key concepts of clinical epidemiology, and particularly of clinical epidemiology. The Course will provide both the foundations in methods utilized in epidemiology in our quest for scientific truth, initial skills allowing the separation of truth from noise, introduce students to traditional as well as new approaches related to big data in our changing world -both prospects and pitfalls-, discuss the import of Patient-related Outcomes Measures (PROMs) and Patient-related Experience Measures (PREMs) for both research and patient-centered care and provide the basis for discussions of the ethics and privacy-related issues emerging in epidemiology as it relates to precision health.