Advanced environmental epidemiology

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Time: March 15 - 16, 2007

Place: University of Kuopio, Kuopio (Maps and connections)

Canthia (the building number 1 on the map)

Credits: 2.0 credit points

Language: English

Organizers: The course is organized jointly by the Graduate school in Environmental Health and Environmental Risk Assessment Centre (ERAC)

Course leader: Professor Juha Pekkanen, Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute

Course description: This two-day advanced level course on environmental epidemiology is based on the one-week course on environmental epidemiology at the European Education Programme in Epidemiology in Florence, Italy. In the course, epidemiological methods used mostly in environmental epidemiology, like biomarkers, time series analyses, and multilevel studies are addressed using examples from different fields of environmental health.

The participants are expected to have basic understanding of epidemiology and environmental health. The course is free.

Lecturer: Professor Jordi Sunyer from Unit of Environmental Health and Respiratory Disease, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain.

Further information: Sari.Makkonen(at)uku.fi, Tel. +358-17-163188

Time schedule:

Date	Lecture
Thursday, March 15
Canthia, S10
10-11	Priorities in environmental epidemiology
11-12	Use of biomarkers in exposure assessment
13-14	Exercise I - designing a study
14-15	Ecological vs. individual studies
15-17	Exercise II - ecological paper in Lancet (Staessen JA, et al. 2001. Lancet 357:1660-09)
Friday, March 16
Canthia, S10
8-10	Time reserved for preparing excercises
10-11	Acute vs. chronic health effects: air pollution, including case-crossover, panel studies and time series design
11-12	Persistent pollutants and children's health
13-15	Exercise III - Air pollution paper (Hoek G, et al. 2002. Lancet 360:1203-09)
15-17	Exercise I - designing a study, part 2