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Advanced Social Epidemiology: A focus on Methodology, Context and Lifecourse
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3127-19-00-00There are no available seats 
Enrollment deadline: 15/06/2019
Date and time19.08.2019, at: 09:15 - 23.08.2019, at: 13:00
Regular seats22
Course fee5,400.00 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.

Course title
Advanced Social Epidemiology: A focus on Concepts, Context, Life-course and Policy

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. Describe and 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 the determinants of population health and health inequalities, including a focus on a lifecourse
perspective and contextual issues. Further the course will touch upon the policy relevance of social
epidemiology.


Participants
The participants are expected to have some basic understanding of epidemiology

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
Cardiovascular Research

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
Senior consultant, PhD Laust Hvas Mortensen (LHM), Statistics Denmark


Dates
19th-23rd August 2019

Course location
CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5a, 1014 Copenhagen K, Room 1-1-12

Registration
Please register before 15. June 2019

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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