This advanced course is arranged within the Swedish Interdisciplinary Graduate School in register-based research (SINGS), website: www.ki.se/imm/sings
Number of higher education credits: 1.5
Dates: December 5-9, 2016
Venue: Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Short description: Life-course epidemiology studies long term effects on later health of physical or social exposures during gestation, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and later adult life. Studying the inter-relationships of biological and social variables over time requires longitudinal information spanning broad periods of life. It also involves considerations of complex underlying structures and multiple pathways that in most cases cannot easily be dealt with using standard regression models. Data originating from different sources, such as the routine registries, are powerful research tools in life-course epidemiology, however, they are also a source of additional analytical difficulties deriving from the varying quality and coverage of their data as well as changes in recording practices over time and across registries. The course focuses on strengths and weaknesses of common epidemiological designs as applied to life-course research and a range of statistical methods for life-course epidemiology.
Course director and teachers:
Ilona Koupil, MD DSc, Professor, Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet & Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet (email address: ilona.koupil@ki.se )
Gita Mishra, MSc PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Australia
Bianca De Stavola, MSc PhD, Professor, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Rhian Daniel, MA MSc PhD, Lecturer, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Target group: This course is of interest to those who currently work or plan to work in the field of life-course epidemiology and those who apply designs from life-course epidemiology to register-based research. The course is of relevance for doctoral students in the fields of epidemiology, public health, sociology, demography, psychology, statistics, health economics, and other medical and social sciences. Post-doctoral fellows are also welcome to apply.
Apply here (latest October 31, 2016): https://survey.ki.se/Survey/3739
Link to more information about the course and entry requirements: http://ki.se/en/imm/sings
For any questions, please contact Anita Berglund, SINGS (email anita.berglund@ki.se).