Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Advanced Social Epidemiology: Concepts, Context, Life-course and Policy
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3127-21-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 25/09/2021

Date and time	11.10.2021, at: 09:15 - 15.10.2021, at: 16:00
Regular seats	21
Course fee	4,920.00 kr.
Lecturers	Ingelise Andersen
ECTS credits	3.00

Contact person	Annegrethe Hansen E-mail address: ahan@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD 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. 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 life-course perspective and contextual issues. Further the course will touch upon the policy relevance of social epidemiology. Participants 25. 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 Language English Form Lectures, group work, discussions Course director Ingelise Andersen, associate professor, IFSV, section of social medicine, inan@sund.ku.dk Teachers Associate professor Sam Harper (SH), McGill University, Montreal, Canada 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 Professor Rikke Lund (RL), University of Copenhagen Professor Theis Lange (TL), University of Copenhagen Professor, Senior consultant Laust Hvas Mortensen (LHM), Statistics Denmark Associate professor Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen (KNN), University of Copenhagen (co-course leader) Dates 11 - 15 October 2021 Course location CSS Registration Please register before 25 September 2021. 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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