Courses of Interest:

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Biological Engineering

Macroepidemiology

(http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-102Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm)

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.

Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health

(http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-104JSpring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm)

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)