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Advanced Social Epidemiology: A focus on Concepts, Methodology, Context and Life-course
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3127-17-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 30/06/2017
Date and time28.08.2017, at: 09:00 - 01.09.2017, at: 15:30
Regular seats25
Course fee4,080.00 kr.
LecturersIngelise Andersen
ECTS credits3.00
Contact personAnnegrethe Hansen    E-mail address: ahan@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). Special rules apply for research year students enrolled at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. All other participants must pay the course fee.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list.

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Understand the central conceptual, methodological and analytical challenges when dealing with social epidemiology
2. Have insights into different ways of measuring social inequality
3. Discuss and define social stratification, social position and health
4. Explain life-course processes related to social epidemiology
5. Put the policy relevance of social epidemiology into perspective


Content
The course will provide an orientation to some main substantive, conceptual and methodological topics in understanding of the determinants of population health and health inequalities, including a focus on a life-course perspective and contextual issues

Participants
25

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

Public Health and Epidemiology

Language
English

Form
Lectures, group work, discussions

Course director
Ingelise Andersen, associate professor, IFSV, section of social medicine, inan@sund.ku.dk

Teachers
Professors Finn Diderichsen (FD), University of Copenhagen, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Professor Carsten Strøby Jensen (CSJ), University of Copenhagen
Professor Annette Kjær Ersbøll (AKE), University of Southern Denmark
Associate professor Sam Harper (SH), McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Associate professor Rikke Lund (RL), University of Copenhagen
Associate professor Laust Hvas Mortensen (LHM), University of Copenhagen. Statistics Denmark

Names, titles, affiliations

Dates
28th August – 1st September 2017

Course location
CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5a, 1014 Copenhagen K, Room---

Registration
Please register before 30.06 2017

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.



Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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