Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Advanced social epidemiology: concepts, methodology and policy
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3127-24-00-00	There are 18 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 21/10/2024

Date and time	02.12.2024, at: 09:00 - 16.12.2024, at: 15:00
Regular seats	25
Course fee	4,560.00 kr.
Lecturers	Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen
ECTS credits	2.70

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 from NorDoc member faculties. 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 NorDoc member faculties. 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 different ways of measuring and analyzing social inequality in health 2. Explain life-course processes related to social stratification and social epidemiology 3. Apply different theoretical explanations for social inequality in health 4. Discuss central conceptual, methodological and analytical challenges in social epidemiology 5. Analyze and discuss the policy implications of social epidemiological research Content The course will provide an insight into main conceptual and methodological topics in social epidemiology. The aim is to understand contextual determinants of population health and health inequalities in a life course perspective, with a focus on measurement, causes and mechanisms, and causality. Inequalities in health related to different social categories including socioeconomic position, gender and social relations will be discussed as well as the role of social policy and commercial actors in shaping population health and health inequalities. Participants 25 The participants are expected to have a 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, discussions, group work Course director Else Foverskov, Assistant professor, IFSV, Section of Social Medicine, elfo@sund.ku.dk Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen, Associate professor, IFSV, Section of Social Medicine, tshj@sund.ku.dk Teachers Sam Harper, Associate Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Alissa Koski, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Charlotta Pisinger, Professor, Syddansk Universitet Sanja Golubovic, Specialkonsulent, Steno Diabetes Center Thorkild I.A. Sørensen, Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen Mette Bender, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen Else Foverskov, Assistant professor, University of Copenhagen Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen, Associate professor, University of Copenhagen Dates 2-6 December 2024 Course location CSS Registration Please register before 21 October 2024 Expected frequency Every second year 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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