Summer School in Clinical Epidemiology

The course is aimed at members of:

• Healthcare & health policy organizations, national HTA Agencies
• Pharmaceutical & medical device industry
• Academia and research institutions
• Health insurances/sickness funds
• Consultancy organizations

The course covers following topics: 

• Introduction to Public Health & Epidemiology: Overview of public health areas and methodological approaches, key epidemiological concepts, disease frequency& effect measures, study designs, bias, causal inference
• Risk & Treatment Prognosis: Determinants of disease, disease risk, prospective cohort study, risk function, prognosis studies, retrospective cohort study, Kaplan Meier curve, Cox-regression models
• Treatment Efficacy & Safety: Randomized clinical trial, design options, analysis of clinical trial, case-control study
• Study Design & Diagnosis: Presentation of study design, diagnostic studies, Bayes theorem
• Decision Analysis in Public Health & Medicine: Types of decision models, clinical decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis