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Epidemiology 2: Analysing data from observational studies
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3124-20-00-00There are no available seats 
Enrollment deadline: 17/09/2020
Date and time19.10.2020, at: 08:00 - 11.11.2020, at: 16:00
Regular seats12
Course fee12,480.00 kr.
LecturersSøren Nielsen
ECTS credits6.00
Contact personSøren Nielsen    E-mail address: saxmose@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), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from Nordic countries. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.


Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
1. Identify an epidemiological problem to be investigated using relevant analytical methods. Specifically, the participant should be able to identify and address potential problems in the data, such as bias and/or confounding and clustering.

2. Use relevant epidemiological and statistical methods for descriptive and analytical epidemiological studies.

3. Conduct simple epidemiological analyses independently.

4. Collaborate scientifically with epidemiologists and statisticians and other relevant scientists on epidemiological problems going beyond this course.

5. Evaluate the validity and reliability of the epidemiological results and assess generalisation to other populations than the study population.


Content
The course focuses on epidemiological analysis of continuous and dichotomous data. Hypothesis establishment and testing, along with assessment of causality and bias are carried out. Methods include linear regression, analysis of variance, chi-square test, logistic regression and logistic analysis, multivariable logistic analysis, interaction and confounding.
Emphasis will be given to analyses of the participants own epidemiological data. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own data. However, the data must be in a form and complexity suitable for the course, i.e. pre-approval of data is a necessity. Otherwise, data will be provided.

During the course, the participant has to analyse the data at hand, starting with specification of testable objectives, description of population, data analysis and results presentation. This should result in a report that can eventually be submitted as a paper to a scientific journal.

The participants will likely present a variety of epidemiological studies from human and veterinary medicine. These different studies will be used in a continuous peer-review process throughout the course to strengthen the application of epidemiological methodology.

The software R will be used for the data analyses.


Participants
The participants are required to have passed the course “Epidemiology 1: Planning a Study” or a similar course.
Furthermore, participants are required to have basic R-skills as taught in that course, i.e. minimum 40 hours of practice using R. These skills may be obtained through self-studies prior to the course.


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:

Herd and Population-oriented Research (HERD)

Public Health and Epidemiology

Immunology and Infectious Diseases


Language
English


Form
The course is taught as eLearning in weeks 43-49, with exam held in week 50. Individual arrangements are made in planning of the exam, which can take place online for participants not from the Copenhagen area. Two days on-campus training supplement the elearning.
During the course, the participant has to present parts of a report step-by-step, which will ultimately form the basis for the exam (and a draft manuscript suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal). The contents and data analyses are discussed with the other participants during the course. This basically means that the participant is required to hand in several assignments each week and ultimately pass an exam to pass the course.


Course director
Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, saxmose@sund.ku.dk


Teachers
Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, saxmose@sund.ku.dk

Matthew Denwood, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, md@sund.ku.dk


Dates
19 October – 11 December 2020

On-campus workshop dates: 10-11 November 2020

eLearning – 10-20 hours per week. Weekly assignments should be expected.


Course location
Distance-based (UCPH’s eLearning environment Absalon)
A stable internet connection is required.

The two workshop days are at University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Campus.


Registration
Please register before 17 September 2020

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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