Instructor(s): George Rutherford

This course is a practicum in public health and preventive medicine as practiced in state and local public health departments in the Bay Area and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Activities include community-based disease control, surveillance, environmental health, outbreak investigations, health education, etc., and can be tailored to students interests.

Instructor(s): George Rutherford

Full-time course in infectious disease ecology based in the Veterinary Public Health and Vector-borne Diseases Sections of the California Department of Health Services. One medical student and one UCD veterinary student will conduct outbreak and field investigations, help to develop public health policy statements and review surveillance data regarding zoonotic and vector-borne diseases of public health significance in California.

Instructor(s): Megie Okumura

This online course guides residents and students through the essential components for writing a clinical research protocol, developed around their own clinical research question. Students attend lectures and small group seminars as well as being given the opportunity for an optional peer review session in the last week of the course. The course will cover research questions, hypotheses, specific aims, study types, sample size estimation, power calculations, and data analysis.

Instructor(s): Leigh Kimberg

Introduction to violence causes, consequences and solutions. Emphasis on health professional's role in the clinic and community. Special consideration of domestic and sexual violence, child abuse, guns, gangs, media, drugs and alcohol, and the justice system.

Instructor(s): Staff

Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty.

Instructor(s): Elaine Ku

Instruction in identifying and resolving common ethical dilemmas that arise in clinical research, how research is regulated, and misconduct in research. This course meets the NIH requirement for training in research ethics.

Instructor(s): Mark Pletcher

A workshop for students to design their own protocol for carrying out a clinical research project. Specific topics are: the research question, study designs, study subjects, measurements, sample size, ethical considerations, presets, data management, quality control, and proposal writing.

Instructor(s): Jennifer Smith, Catie Oldenburg, Erin Van Blarigan

An introductory course to the theory and methods of epidemiology, including an overview of the measures of disease occurrence in populations, measures of association between exposures and outcomes, major study designs used in epidemiology, and major sources of bias in epidemiologic studies. It aims to develop participants skills in the critical evaluation of epidemiologic studies, and will provide the foundation for more advanced methods in study design, causal inference, and biostatistics.

Instructor(s): Michael Kohn, Thomas Newman

This is primarily a course about diagnosis and prediction. In public health and clinical practice, diagnostic tests estimate the probability of a prevalent disease, and risk prediction models evaluate the likelihood of an incident outcome. The course will cover: performance measures used for diagnostic tests and risk prediction models; design and critical appraisal of research studies to evaluate tests and risk models; and using the results of tests and risk models.

Instructor(s): Alison Huang, Patrick Phillips

Instruction in experimental design options in clinical research; methods of randomization; blinding; interventions and controls; measuring outcomes and adverse effects; follow-up, compliance and post-randomization problems; ethical issues; and working with pharmaceutical companies.

Instructor(s): June Chan, Rebecca Graff

This course is designed to provide masters and doctoral students in Epidemiology with advanced training in the theory and practice of epidemiology. It focuses on integrating study design methods with advanced causal inference approaches. The lectures focus on practical and theoretical considerations of the observational study designs. The small group discussion meetings will cover examples and applications of the concepts and analytic approaches introduced in the lectures.

Instructor(s): Jacqueline Torres

This course will provide an overview of issues and methods for the study of the epidemiology of aging with a focus on common chronic diseases in older populations. Students will learn how epidemiologic methods can be applied to aging populations with emphasis on translational applications. Researchers in a topic will present their work. A combination of lectures and seminar formats will be used. Students will complete a 10-page paper, present their work in class and participate in discussion.

Instructor(s): Vinayak Prasad

This course will provide instruction in preparing manuscripts for publication in the medical literature including how to prepare title and abstract; introduction and methods; results and discussion.

Instructor(s): Tracy Lin

This course builds from basic portrayal of decision problems, to more inclusive and sophisticated methods. Section activities parallel the lectures; assignments include both programmed exercises on current topics and development of student's own decision analysis and cost effectiveness analysis.

Instructor(s): Thomas Hoffmann

This course introduces the concepts, principles, & use of molecular and genetic methods in epidemiologic and clinical research. Students will develop a framework for interpreting, assessing & incorporating such measures in their area of research. In particular, students will learn about: common molecular measures available; including such measures into clinical research; and interactions between genes & other exposures.

Instructor(s): Michael Kohn

Instruction in data collection and management for clinical research, including the relational database model, data collection forms, reports, and exports to statistical packages. Specific applications include REDCap and Microsoft Access with the option of exporting to Stata or R. Build SQL statements using the Access query design tool.

Instructor(s): Lydia Zablotska

This series of seminars, beginning in fall and spread over three terms, provides a forum for presenting scholar's projects and for evaluating controversies in clinical research..

Instructor(s): Jeffrey Martin, Thomas Newman, Michael Kohn

These seminars provide a forum for presenting scholar's projects, and for evaluating controversies in clinical research.

Instructor(s): Christine Dehlendorf, Meghan Morris

An introduction to the knowledge and skills needed to conduct high-quality research in diverse human populations with an emphasis on understanding the measurement and influence of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status on health.

Instructor(s): William Brown

This course is for learners interested in accessing data sources and using informatics tools that are helpful in identifying cohorts, developing research questions, and conducting health disparities research. Topics will include finding, managing, manipulating, mining, and analyzing a variety of data types. Lectures will cover informatics research projects that address health disparities. Learners will gain access to tools and data sources, and there will be hands-on activities.

Instructor(s): Lydia Zablotska

Trainees enrolled in the ATCR program present and critique each others' clinical research projects on an on-going basis throughout the year.

Instructor(s): Anobel Odisho

This course introduces students to concepts, methods, and pitfalls related to the extraction and analysis of data from the Electronic Health Record. The course covers common EHR data structures and vocabularies, using that knowledge to inform clinical study design, and creation of patient cohorts and analytic extracts. We will evaluate both ambulatory and inpatient use cases. The course will pair lectures with labs to allow application of lecture material.

Instructor(s): Raman Khanna, William Brown

The course will provide an overview of clinical informatics (the application of informatics to deliver health care services), with an emphasis on clinical informatics research and maintaining scientific rigor in implementation, measurement, evaluation, and health equity. Topics will include electronic health records, clinical decision support, data standards and systems, human factors engineering, clinical informatics policy, and the application of artificial intelligence in clinical informatics

Instructor(s): Margaret Handley, Starley Shade

Instruction in the design of studies that are alternatives to individual participant-level randomization for the evaluation of interventions in real-world settings. Both randomized (e.g., cluster-randomized and stepped-wedge randomized trials) and quasi-experimental design (e.g., pre-post and interrupted time series) will be discussed.

Instructor(s): Janet Myers

This course provides training in evaluating a health program or strategy implemented in a clinical or public health setting. Scholars will develop an evaluation plan that uses logic models and evaluation frameworks (e.g., RE-AIM) to guide the systematic collection of information to understand if and how a program/implementation strategy is meeting its stated goals and objectives; improve program/implementation strategy effectiveness; and/or make decisions about future programming.

Instructor(s): Meghana Gadgil

Human-centered design is a discipline incorporating the human needs perspective to solve problems in public health and medicine. As an introduction to the practice, learners will follow a service design process applying methods focused on building empathy, translating needs into solution requirements, creative ideation, prototype development and testing, and planning for implementation. Broad implementation science principles and approaches will be overlaid to show intersection points.

Instructor(s): Adithya Cattamanchi, Andrew Kerkhoff

This course provides a foundation for designing and evaluating strategies to accelerate the translation of evidence into practice, policy, and public health. Concepts introduced include community engagement, behavior change theory, and implementation strategy design and evaluation frameworks, and study design. In addition to didactic work, scholars are guided through the creation of a protocol aimed towards facilitating uptake of their chosen health intervention. Cross-listed as IMPLMT SCI 245.

Instructor(s): Matthew Spinelli, Emilia Demarchis

Provides training in developing interventions targeting individual health behavior change, while focusing on intervention design components that target multiple determinants: individual, interpersonal and system/community/structural level. Students use principles of behavior change theories and implementation frameworks applied to their work to solidify course concepts. Additional assignments involve case studies analysis and online discussions with other students. Cross-listed with IMS 246.

Instructor(s): Laura Schmidt

This course surveys a range of translational tools at the health care system level that you can use to promote the adoption of evidence-based medicine by providers and delivery systems. Learn strategies for change in the broader context of sociological theories of organizational behavior and policy implementation. Focus your learning on translational tools that can be used by stakeholders outside of health care organizations to promote the adoption of clinical innovations within organizations.

Instructor(s): Sara Ackerman

This course provides training in the theory and practice of collaborating with patients, members of the public, and community-based organizations in health research, intervention design and implementation. Multiple engagement strategies are introduced through readings, guest speakers, case studies, and online discussions. Participatory research methods will be applied to trainees' ongoing or planned projects in order to adapt health interventions to real-world contexts. Cross-listed as IMS 248.

Instructor(s): Beth Griffiths

This course will focus on the policy process and strategies for collecting and disseminating research findings to inform and influence that process. The course will be taught through a series of videos and guided readings delivered by faculty with extensive experience at the federal, state, and local level in health care policy.

Instructor(s): Robert Hiatt, Lydia Zablotska, George Sawaya, Thea Tlsty, Erin Van Blarigan, Scarlett Gomez, Karla Kerlikowske, Rebecca Graff

This course is intended for students who already have acquired, or concurrently are acquiring, a basic understanding of the principles and methods of epidemiology, and who now wish to apply this knowledge to the study of the epidemiology of neoplastic diseases. This is a 2-part course that extends over to the spring quarter, beginning with EPIDEMIOL 252A, followed by EPIDEMIOL 252B.

Instructor(s): Robert Hiatt, George Sawaya, Thea Tlsty, Lydia Zablotska, Karla Kerlikowske, Scarlett Gomez, Erin Van Blarigan, Rebecca Graff

This course is intended for students who already have acquired, or concurrently are acquiring a basic understanding of the principles and methods of epidemiology, and who now wish to apply this knowledge to the study of the epidemiology of neoplastic diseases. This is a 2-part course that extends over to the spring quarter, beginning with EPIDEMIOL 252A, followed by EPIDEMIOL 252B.

Instructor(s): Ali Mirzazadeh, George Rutherford

This course will focus on the epidemiological methods used in infectious disease, and strategies for their control or elimination. The faculty-facilitated seminars will focus on key readings in the field and will be led by students. The course covers concepts and methods to assess transmissions, pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical control measures, outbreak investigation, and one health approach to fight health issues at the human-animal-environment interface, including zoonotic diseases.

Instructor(s): Erin Van Blarigan, Amy Conroy

This course is designed to provide doctoral students and fellows with training on the preparation of a NIH Fellowship or Career Development Award application in a structured environment. The course will cover funding mechanisms, NIH submission and review procedures, charting out a timeline for writing and assembling all grant components, and writing each component of the grant application.

Instructor(s): Erin Van Blarigan

This course is designed to provide training on the preparation of a NIH Fellowship or Career Development Award application in a structured environment. The course will cover funding mechanisms, NIH submission and review procedures, charting out a timeline for writing and assembling all grant components, and writing each component of the grant application.

Instructor(s): Nadia Diamond-Smith

This course will cover basic demographic theory and methods, including population dynamics, fertility, mortality, migration, urbanization, aging, and family structure. The emphasis will be on how and why understanding these factors is important for public health practitioners. This will be accomplished through case studies on public health topics and how understanding certain demographic phenomenon is essential for understanding the disease burden.

Instructor(s): Catie Oldenburg

This course will focus on clearly articulating and testing research hypotheses related to the determinants and consequences of chronic conditions. Each session will introduce specific methodological concepts for epidemiologic studies, organized around an illustrative applied research paper. The course will emphasize causal inference from observational data. Most examples will be drawn from literature on social and lifecourse determinants of dementia, stroke, and cardiometabolic disease.

Instructor(s): Travis Porco

Introduction to Concepts of mathematical modeling of infectious diseases; topics include branching processes and the basic reproduction number, dynamical systems, and methods for data fitting Including MCMC.

Instructor(s): Sara Ackerman, Kim Koester

This course provides training in the use of qualitative and mixed methods in clinical, health services and implementation research. Through readings, lectures, case studies, and online discussions, students will gain basic skills in conducting interviews, focus groups, and observations, qualitative and mixed methods data analysis, and innovative approaches such as rapid ethnography and joint display of qualitative and quantitative findings.

Instructor(s): Justin White

Epidemiologists and clinical researchers are increasingly seeking to estimate the causal effects of health-related policies, programs, and interventions. Economists have long had similar interests, and have developed and refined methods to estimate causal relationships. Examples include difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity. This course introduces this set of econometric tools and research designs in the context of health-related questions.

Instructor(s): Patience Afulani, Nadia Diamond-Smith

This is a graduate-level course focused on Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (RMNCH). The course will cover foundational RMNCH concepts, including providing an overview of selected RMNCH issues in the US and globally, highlighting best practices and innovations in measurement in RMNCH, examining ways in which social determinants influence RMNCH and produce health inequities and evaluating approaches to meet the needs of vulnerable populations.

Instructor(s): Catie Oldenburg, Dave Glidden

This seminar is for doctoral students enrolled in the PhD Program in Epidemiology and Translational Science. The seminar is a forum for instruction and discussion of scholarly topics related to advanced study of epidemiology and its applications as well as works in progress by the graduate students.

Instructor(s): Staff

Independent Study in Epidemiology and Translational Science provides opportunities for pre-doctoral students to work with individual faculty on topics tailored to the special interest of the student with individualized readings, learning materials and experiential learning.

Instructor(s): Staff

Two Research (Team) Rotations of one quarter each are required for the PhD degree in Epidemiology and Translational Science. The purpose is to expose the student to every day working environments for epidemiologists to expand their view of the scope of the discipline. The content of a Rotation can be primarily analytic working with an existing dataset or nonanalytic working on the development and implementation of a research project.

Instructor(s): Alexis Beatty, Elaine Ku

For graduate students in the MAS in Clinical Research Program who have successfully completed all required coursework and are in the process of writing their three products required for graduation.

Instructor(s): Catie Oldenburg

EPI 299D Dissertation Research is required of students working on their dissertations following passing their qualifying examinations. The subject matter depends on the topic of the dissertation.

Instructor(s): Elaine Ku, Alexis Beatty, Catie Oldenburg, Dave Glidden

Students in the Masters in Clinical and Epidemiological Research program are required to gain instructional experience (typically in their second year) in one course within the TICR Program. This experience may involve leading a weekly small-group discussion section (10-12 students), holding office hours for students and grading homework assignments and projects. Satisfactory completion of this requirement is required for advancement to degree completion.