Department: Epidemiology

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EPI199 Undergraduate Research Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
EPI202 R Fundamentals for Health Research This introductory course is a practicum in which students will learn the basics of R, a free, open-source statistical analysis software program, and use the programming language to analyze health datasets by application of classical statistical metho...
EPI206 Meta-research: Appraising Research Findings, Bias, and Meta-analysis Open to graduate, medical, and undergraduate students. Appraisal of the quality and credibility of research findings; evaluation of sources of bias. Meta-analysis as a quantitative (statistical) method for combining results of independent studies. Ex...
EPI214 Scientific Writing (Formerly HRP 214) Step-by-step through the process of writing and publishing a scientific manuscript. How to write effectively, concisely, and clearly in preparation of an actual scientific manuscript. Students are encouraged to bring a manuscript o...
EPI216 Analytical and Practical Issues in the Conduct of Clinical and Epidemiologic Research (Formerly HRP 216) Topics include: advanced aspects of study design and data analyses; evaluating confounding and interaction; modeling continuous characteristics of exposure; building prediction models; methods of summarizing literature and quantify...
EPI219 Evaluating Technologies for Diagnosis, Prediction and Screening (Formerly HRP 219) New technologies designed to monitor and improve health outcomes are constantly emerging, but most fail in the clinic and in the marketplace because relatively few are supported by reliable, reproducible evidence that they produce...
EPI220 Deploying and Evaluating Fair AI in Healthcare AI applications are proliferating throughout the healthcare system and stakeholders are faced with the opportunities and challenges of deploying these quickly evolving technologies. This course teaches the principles of AI evaluations in healthcare,...
EPI223 Introduction to Data Management and Analysis in SAS (Formerly HRP 223) Provides hands-on introduction to basic data management and analysis techniques using SAS. Data management topics include: Introduction to SAS and SAS syntax, importing data, creating and reading SAS datasets, data cleaning and val...
EPI224 Genetic Epidemiology This course presents fundamental concepts and methods in genetic epidemiology, with examples from genetic studies of common, complex diseases (e.g., cancer). It will provide an overview of various study designs and covers fundamental analyses, infer...
EPI225 Introduction to Epidemiologic and Clinical Research Methods (Formerly HRP 225) The skills to design, carry out, and interpret epidemiologic studies, particularly of chronic diseases. Topics: epidemiologic concepts, sources of data, cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional studies, sampling, measu...
EPI226 Intermediate Epidemiologic and Clinical Research Methods (Formerly HRP 226) The principles of study design, measurement, confounding, effect modification, and strategies for minimizing bias in clinical and epidemiologic studies. Prerequisite: 225 or consent of instructor.
EPI227 Advanced Epidemiologic Methods (Formerly HRP 227) Theory and applied methods for causal inference in epidemiology. Focus on the potential outcomes model and related methods including inverse probability weights, G-computation, and targeted maximum likelihood estimation. Other con...
EPI229 Stanford CTSA Scholars Seminar Preference to trainees awarded Stanford internal KL2, TL1 grants. Focus is on students and junior faculty who have received a CTSA KL2 or TL1 Award. Discussions include progress and challenges involved in starting and conducting clinical research, cu...
EPI231 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (Formerly HRP 231) Principles of the transmission of the infectious agents (viruses, bacteria, rickettsiae, mycoplasma, fungi, and protozoan and helminth parasites). The role of vectors, reservoirs, and environmental factors. Pathogen and host charac...
EPI235 Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems The excitement around social innovation and entrepreneurship has spawned numerous startups focused on tackling world problems, particularly in the fields of education and health. The best social ventures are launched with careful consideration paid t...
EPI236 Epidemiology Research Seminar (Formerly HRP 236) Weekly forum for ongoing epidemiologic research by faculty, staff, guests, and students, emphasizing research issues relevant to disease causation, prevention, and treatment. May be repeated for credit.
EPI237 Practical Approaches to Global Health Research (Formerly IPS 290 and HRP 237) How do you come up with an idea for a useful research project in a low resource setting? How do you develop a research question, prepare a concept note, and get your project funded? How do you manage personnel in the fi...
EPI238 Genes and Environment in Disease Causation: Implications for Medicine and Public Health (Formerly HRP 238) The historical, contemporary, and future research and practice among genetics, epidemiology, clinical medicine, and public health as a source of insight for medicine and public health. Genetic and environmental contributions to mul...
EPI239 Applications of Causal Inference Methods See http://rogosateaching.com/stat209/. Application of potential outcomes formulation for causal inference to research settings including: mediation, compliance adjustments, time-1 time-2 designs, encouragement designs, heterogeneous treatment effect...
EPI240 Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology This course focuses on important considerations when evaluating and conducting epidemiologic, population-based, and clinical research studies relating to pregnancy, reproduction, and their outcomes. Discussions and readings will survey core areas wi...
EPI244 Developing Measurement Tools for Health Research (Formerly HRP 244) The focus of this course is on providing the skills necessary to develop, validate and administer both qualitative and quantitative measures and instruments. Topics will include creating valid measures, ensuring the measures used a...
EPI245 Intensive Course in Clinical Research The Intensive Course in Clinical Research (ICCR) is a one-week immersion course designed for new or aspiring clinical investigators, medical students, residents, graduate students, fellows and junior faculty interested in pursuing careers in clinical...
EPI247 Epidemic Intelligence: How to Identify, Investigate and Interrupt Outbreaks of Disease (HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 57. Med/Graduate students must enroll in EPI 247.) We will cover: the components of public health systems in the US; principles of outbreak investigation and disease surveillance; different types of study design...
EPI250 Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine: Hands-on experience How can one practice evidence-based medicine and make evidence-based decisions for clinical practice and policy making? Using pivotal papers published in the recent scientific literature addressing important clinical questions on diverse medical topi...
EPI251 Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials (Formerly HRP 251) The rationale for phases 1-3 clinical trials, the recruitment of subjects, techniques for randomization, data collection and endpoints, interim monitoring, and reporting of results. Emphasis is on the theoretical underpinnings of c...
EPI253 Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention (Formerly HRP 253) This course focuses on the role of epidemiology in cancer etiology, prevention, and control. We will discuss descriptive epidemiology, including cancer trends and patterns, natural history, and biologic characteristics as well as e...
EPI258 Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Clinical Research (Formerly HRP 258) Open to medical and graduate students; required of medical students in the Clinical Research Scholarly Concentration. Tools to evaluate medical literature. Topics include random variables, expectation, variance, probability distrib...
EPI259 Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Epidemiology (HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 89X. Med/Graduate students must enroll in EPI 259.) Topics: random variables, expectation, variance, probability distributions, the central limit theorem, sampling theory, hypothesis testing, confidence interval...
EPI261 Intermediate Biostatistics: Analysis of Discrete Data (Formerly HRP 261) Methods for analyzing data from case-control and cross-sectional studies: the 2x2 table, chi-square test, Fisher's exact test, odds ratios, Mantel-Haenzel methods, stratification, tests for matched data, logistic regression, condit...
EPI262 Intermediate Biostatistics: Regression, Prediction, Survival Analysis (Formerly HRP 262) Methods for analyzing longitudinal data. Topics include Kaplan-Meier methods, Cox regression, hazard ratios, time-dependent variables, longitudinal data structures, profile plots, missing data, modeling change, MANOVA, repeated-mea...
EPI263 Social Epidemiology Preference to graduate students with prior coursework in Epidemiology. Focuses on understanding the theory and empirical evidence that shows support for the relationships between social environments and health. Covers four main topics: the historical...
EPI264 Foundations of Statistical and Scientific Inference (Formerly HRP 264) The course will consist of readings and discussion of foundational papers and book sections in the domains of statistical and scientific inference. Topics to be covered include philosophy of science, interpretations of probability,...
EPI265 Advanced Methods for Meta-Analysis (Formerly HRP 265) Meta-analysis is a method to quantitatively combine information from multiple studies; this combination is also called "research synthesis." Historically, it has been used to combine studies with a similar design, such as randomize...
EPI267 Life Course Epidemiology (Formerly HRP 267) The focus of this course is on understanding the evidence for how exposure at multiple levels and at multiple ages influences an individual's health at any given time. The course emphasizes the primary theories used to examine life...
EPI270 Big Data Methods for Behavioral, Social, and Population Health Research This course will expose students from a variety of quantitative backgrounds to study design and analysis strategies for addressing specific hypotheses using the varied sources of behavioral, social, and population health sciences research data, and t...
EPI272 The Science of Community Engagement in Health Research The Science of Community Engagement in Health Research course will focus on how the science of community engagement can be applied to diverse health-related research topics across the translational spectrum with the ultimate goal of high quality rese...
EPI273 Essentials of Clinical Research at Stanford The 10-week course provides an overview of basic principles of clinical research design, including biostatistics; design and interpretation of diagnostic and predictive test studies; required and desired elements of clinical trial protocols. Particip...
EPI291 Curricular Practical Training Curricular Practical Training in EPI.
EPI297 History of Epidemiology This seminar course provides a survey of critical events in the development of epidemiology as a scientific discipline. It includes weekly interactive presentations by the course directors and guest faculty, and it encompasses key people, critical pu...
EPI299 Directed Reading in Epidemiology Epidemiology, preventive medicine, medical genetics, public health, occupational or environmental medicine, international health, or related fields. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
EPI370 Medical Scholars Research Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.
EPI399 Graduate Research Investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
EPI801 TGR Project No Description Set
EPI802 TGR Dissertation No Description Set