Courses of Interest:

(http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#top)

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)

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