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Course Description: This course presents a challenging multi-dimensional perspective on the causes of human disease and mortality. The course focuses on analyses of major causes of mortality in the US since 1900: cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and infectious diseases.
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Course Description: This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical methods; evaluation of human exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions with cellular components, and biological effects; and qualitative and quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S. as bases for regulatory decision-making.
Selected Lecture Notes: (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-104JSpring-2005/LectureNotes/index.htm)
Introductory Lecture
Watch film A Civil Action
From the Real World to Hollywood and Back Again
Epidemiology: Persons, Places, and Time
Epidemiology: Test Development and Relative Risk
Biostatistics: Concepts in Variance
Biostatistics: Distribution and the Mean
Confidence Intervals
Biostatistics: Detecting Differences and Correlations
Biostatistics: Poisson Analyses and Power
Environetics: Cause and Effect
Environetics: Study Design - Retrospective versus Prospective
Environetics: Putting it all together - Evaluating Studies
Quiz #1: Epidemiology-Biostatistics
Evaluating Environmental Causes of Mesothelioma
Quantitative Risk Assessment 1
Quantitative Risk Assessment 2
Toxicology 1
Toxicology 2
Toxicology 3
Toxicology 4
Toxicology 5
Quantitative Risk Assessment 3
Quantitative Risk Assessment 4