This course is intended to provide students in epidemiology, biostatistics, and other disciplines with an in-depth introduction to the principles and methods of social epidemiology.

This course introduces students to key concepts and methods in Nutritional Epidemiology to equip them with the tools needed to design, analyze, and critically evaluate population-based nutrition research. The course also reviews several specific diet/disease relationships, integrating information from secular trends, cohort studies, clinical trials, and animal experiments. Knowledge in nutrition is useful but not required. Prerequisites include introductory epidemiology.