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Summer Courses in Epidemiology in 1999
The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health is sponsoring the Graduate Summer Institute in Epidemiology and Biostatistics as part of its new "The Summer Institutes of 1999" program, to be conducted from 14 June to 2 July 1999. The program offers three-week courses and one-week courses. Three-week courses include:
One week-courses include:
Proficiency in the English language is required.
For further information contact: Ayesha Khan, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205. Tel. (410) 955-7158; Fax (410) 955-0863; E-mail: akhan@jhsph.edu Website: www.jhsph.edu/Departments/Epi/summer.html Other courses offered under "The Summer Institute of 1999" program are in the areas of: Environmental Health Sciences; Principles and Practice of Injury Prevention; Health Policy Management; Tropical Medicine and Public Health, and Strategic Leadership and Management for Population and Reproductive Health. For additional information please contact Helen Walters, Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, Suite W1015, 615 N.Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Tel: 410-614-5985, Fax: 410-614-8126. Email: summer@jhsph.edu; Website: www.jhsph.edu/Academics/summer
The University of Michigan School of Public Health announces the thirty-fourth Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology to be conducted from July 11 to 30, 1999. Three three-week courses will be offered:
One-week courses include:
The Graduate Summer Session welcomes national and international health professionals. For further information contact: Dr. David Schottenfeld or Jody Gray, Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology, The University of Michigan, School of Public Health, 109 S. Observatory Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029 USA, Telephone: (734) 764-5454, Fax: (734) 764 3192 Email: umichgss@sph.umich.edu Web site: www.sph.umich.edu/epid/GSS
The Ninth Summer Session in Intermediate Epidemiology sponsored by the Special Program for Health Analysis, of the Pan American Health Organization, will be conducted from July 19 to August 6, 1999 at the College of Public Health, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, Florida. The courses being offered are: intermediate methods in epidemiology; statistics applied to epidemiology and the use of software packages, and the use of epidemiology in the programming and evaluation of health services. Students are required to have approved basic training in epidemiology. Courses will be conducted in Spanish, but participants must be able to read English. For more information and application: Dr. Carlos Castillo-Salgado, HDA/HDP, Pan American Health Organization, 525 Twenty-third Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037. Tel. (202) 974-3327, Fax (202) 974-3674.
The Seventeenth International Course in Applied Epidemiology, conferring diploma status recognized by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, will take place from 5 to 30 of July 1999 in Mexico, D.F., under the coordination of the Directorate of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health of Mexico. The course is design to develop two broad subject-matter areas: the first includes theoretical and methodological aspects of epidemiological practice and the second, specific subject areas of applied epidemiology, such as epidemiology of communicable diseases and of chronic diseases, environmental epidemiology and epidemiology of addiction. Other subjects are: basic and intermediate epidemiology; basic and intermediate biostatistics; design of research protocols; introduction to Epi-Info 6.0 for epidemiologic analysis; multivariate analysis in epidemiology; selected topics in clinical epidemiology and injury epidemiology. For further information, contact: Dirección General de Epidemiología; Francisco de P. Miranda No. 177; Col. Unidad Lomas de Plateros; Delegación Alvaro Obregón; C.P. 01480, México, D.F.; Tel/Fax: National call (01-5) International call (01-525) 593-36-61 and 651-62-86. E-mail: ealvar@epi.org.mx; Web site: http// www.epi.org.mx
The Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Heath, McGill University will hold its 14th Annual Summer Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from May 3 to June 25, 1999. Intended for clinicians, health professionals and for graduate students specializing in epidemiology and/or biostatistics or public health. Students may take courses for academic credit or for professional interest. CME units, fully accredited by CACMS and ACCME, are available. The May session (May 3-28) includes courses in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Clinical Epidemiology and Health-Care Technology Assessment (3 credits each) as well as Cancer Epidemiology, Evidence-based Medicine, and a Practicum in Public Health (1 credit each). The June session (May 31- June 25) includes a series of four consecutive one-week courses in Pharmacoepidemiology (2 credits each) as well as courses in Protocol Development, in Analysis of Multi-variable Data (3 credits each), and in Epidemiology and Environmental Risk Assessment (1 credit). Topics to covered in Pharmacoepidemiology are: Pharmacoepidemiology I: Introduction (May 31-June 4) Pharmacoepidemiology II: Methods (June 7- 11) Pharmacoepidemiology III: Substantive Epidemiology- Case studies and Review of methods (June14-18) Pharmacoepidemiology IV: Pharmacoeconomics (June 21, 22, 23, and 25) For more information contact Diane-Lise Legault, Coordinator, Summer Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Room 38-B, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 1A2. Tel: (514) 398-3973; Fax (514) 398-4503 or 398-4266; Email dianel@EPID.Lan.McGill.CA
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