<p>Lecture, three hours. Requisites: course 200C or 401, or Biostatistics 200A or 200B or 406, and course M403 or 407A or Biostatistics 203A. Provides students with necessary tools to evaluate effectiveness or impact of public health interventions. Study designs include non-randomized, quasi-experiments, and natural experiments. Covers both theoretical concepts as well as practical tools that encompass methods borrowed from related fields including social epidemiology, health policy, econometrics, and evaluation research. These methods include instrumental variable, difference-in-difference, synthetic control, regression discontinuity, and propensity score matching. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Epidemiology

The school aims to build health and equity, and to drive positive change for all people. The school acts on this mission through initiatives in three core areas: education, discovery, and service.

Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations.

General Catalog

Methods for Analyzing Non-Randomized and Quasi-Experimental Studies

EPIDEM205

4 units