Required courses
Fall - Year 1
EPIB 601. Fundamentals of Epidemiology.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to epidemiologic concepts and corresponding terms. After an introduction to the history, definition, and purposes of epidemiology, "core" concepts that are relevant in several areas of investigation (e.g., etiologic research, health care research, and community medicine practice) will be presented.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken EPIB 606. Open to students in Epidemiology or Biostatistics programs, or permission of instructor.
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EPIB 607. Inferential Statistics.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the basic principles of statistical inference used in clinical and epidemiologic research. Topics include variability; methods of processing and describing data; sampling and sampling distributions; inferences regarding means and proportions, non-parametric methods, regression and correlation.
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): A first year course in undergraduate differential and integral calculus.
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EPIB 613. Introduction to Statistical Software.
Credits: 1
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to statistical software and data management; including basics of entering, manipulating data and elementary statistical analysis, SAS software, with reference to other packages of potential interest to students (R, Stata, SPSS).
- Prerequisite: Enrolment in Epidemiology stream program or permission of instructor.
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PPHS 602. Foundations of Population Health.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to population health and the conceptual basis of the population health approach to measuring disease occurrence and to prevention. Fundamentals of, and methods for, studying burden of disease in population, and how these differ across time, space, and groups. Topics include population dynamics, denominators, occurrence of events, time, person and place, health indicators, standardization, life tables, age, cohort and period effects, disease surveillance and vital statistics. Introduction to the concepts and principles of measurement including measurement error, validity, reliability, and accuracy.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 602 or EPIB 614.
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Winter - Year 1
EPIB 603. Intermediate Epidemiology.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Concepts and methods for epidemiology at the intermediate level, including causation, measures of disease occurrence and effect, study designs, biases in epidemiologic research, interaction, and data analysis for categorical and survival data using statistical software.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EPIB 634.
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 601, EPIB 607, and PPHS 602.
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EPIB 605. Critical Appraisal in Epidemiology.
Credits: 1
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course provides the opportunity to develop skills to critically evaluate evidence presented in the biomedical and health sciences literature, based on the concepts acquired in the epidemiology introductory courses.
- Prerequisites: EPIB 601 and EPIB 607.
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PPHS 612. Principles of Public Health Practice.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Principles and methods in public health practice. Topics will include investigation in public health, public health intervention, program evaluation, public health and the health care system, society and public health.
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 601, EPIB 602 or PPHS 602, and EPIB 607 or permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 612.
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EPIB 621. Data Analysis in Health Sciences.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Univariate and multivariate statistical techniques for continuous categorical and survival data. Topics include generalized linear models, multiple linear and logistic regression, introductory survival analysis, model selection. Maximum likelihood and Bayesean approaches will be presented.
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 601 and EPIB 607 of permission of instructor.
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Summer - Year 1
PPHS 630. MScPH Practicum/Project.
Credits: 12
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
The practicum provides the opportunity to integrate classroom learning and practice in a population or public health work environment. The student contributes to an organization's mandate and to addressing a population and/or public health problem while developing skills as a population and/or public health professional and/or researcher.
- 2. PPHS 629D1/D2, PPHS 630 or PPHS 630D1/D2, and PPHS 631D1/D2 are equivalent to the former EPIB 630 or EPIB 630D1/D2 (14 credits).
- Restriction(s): Open to students registered in the M.Sc. in Public Health.
- 1. PPHS 629D1/D2, PPHS 630 or PPHS 630D1/D2, and PPHS 631D1/D2 are required and students must complete them in sequence.
- 2. PPHS 629D1/D2, PPHS 630 or PPHS 630D1/D2, and PPHS 631D1/D2 are equivalent to the former EPIB 630 or EPIB 630D1/D2 (14 credits).
- Restriction(s): Open to students registered in the M.Sc. in Public Health; Non-Thesis.
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Year 2 - Complementary courses
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