EPI 615 - Introduction to Epidemiology and Control of Chronic and Infectious Diseases (3 credits)
Prerequisites: epidemiology core courses. Terminology; major causes; occurrence, distribution and dynamic behavior; epidemiologic concepts; epidemiology of selected diseases; investigation of outbreaks and epidemics; application to medicine (individual basis) and public health (community and population basis); implement levels of prevention and control.

EPI 616 - Advanced Topics in Infectious and Chronic Diseases Epidemiology (3 credits)
Prerequisites: epidemiology core courses, EPI 615. Utilizing practical and detailed examples, explores topically important issues in epide-miology to provide a framework for future self-learning and field research experiences. Applies principles to critically analyze relevant literature. Presents advanced, selected topics in depth with an emphasis on infectious disease epidemiology.

EPI 621 - Survey Research Methods/Questionnaire Design (3 credits)
Prerequisites: biostatistics, epidemiology, health information systems core courses. Introduces basics of survey research; provides skills necessary to conduct research. Conduct a one-page survey and present the results to the class as a final project.

EPI 625 - Community-Based Epidemiological Research (3 credits)
Prerequisites: epidemiology and biostatistic core courses. Investigate the epidemiology of a disease or an outbreak or risk factor(s) or any of the current public health issues. The investigation must warrant publication upon successful completion of the study; include detailed study in primary and secondary prevention of the selected topic; and requires review of relevant literature.

EPI 626 - Emerging and Re-emerging Infections (3 credits)
Covers the problem organisms and the various approaches to the problems from immunization and surveillance to attacking the societal variables that provide the setting in which these epidemics arise and flourish. Includes deliberately initiated infections (bioterrorism) and controversial partial solutions such as food irradiation.

EPI 627 - Innovations in Public Health (3 credits)
Includes some of the major historical approaches, current concepts (including control of illicit drug use, unusual community-based projects, use of large national cohorts) and potential future approaches; marketing of public health; appropriate, fiscally responsible screening; nutrition; and changes that will be created in public health innovations related to deciphering the genome.

EPI 628 - Pharmacoepidemiology (3 credits)
Prerequisites: epidemiology core courses, required track courses. Familiarization with methodological issues in pharmacoepidemiology; commonly used designs (e.g. cohort, case-referent); identification of main sources of bias in these designs; familiarization with tactics to deal with these biases. Students present for discussion proposals for pharmacoepidemiologic research.

EPI 629 - Oral Epidemiology of Chronic and Infectious Diseases (3 credits)
Provides an epidemiological overview of oral diseases. Topics include: clinical-decision analyses for the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and prognosis; research protocol; epidemiological data sources and clinical measurements; scientific papers; sampling techniques and research designs; descriptive and inferential statistics.