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Pre-requisites:. Principles of Epidemiology, Principles of Public Health, Research Skills. Teaching Strategy:. ... Pre-specified problems will include topics of relevance to both public health and primary care that can be approached from a UK or

MPhil Population Health Sciences. Genetic epidemiology. Genetic Epidemiology. Module Aims: This module aims to provide an introduction to genetic epidemiology, to increase students’ awareness of the field and to give them

The main emphasis will be to develop an understanding of how genomics, in both hospital and community settings, significantly contributes to our knowledge of infectious disease biology for public health investigations ... one health genomics.

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the application of a One-Health approach to zoonotic infections. ... Pre-requisites: Principles of Epidemiology, Principles of Biostatistics (or Statistics for HDS), Principles of Public Health.

MPhil Population Health Sciences. Applied Genomics. Applied Genomics. Module Aims:. This module aims to provide the understanding, specialist knowledge and practical skills required to analyse large genomic datasets to answer questions ... about the

MPhil Population Health Sciences. Non-communicable diseases. Non-communicable diseases epidemiology. Module Aims:. ... challenges faced by epidemiology and public health in studying and controlling these conditions.

Design a range of Bayesian models for health science problems, including appropriate selection of prior distributions. ... Pre-requisites: Either Statistics for Health Data Science or Advanced Biostatistics for Epidemiology.

rd. sector, industry and the media) in the development of public health policy. ... Pre-requisites:. Principles of Epidemiology, Principles of Public Health, Research Skills, Health Economics.

MPhil Population Health Sciences. Causal inference. Causal inference in practice. Module Aims: This module aims to give students an appreciation of the principles of causal inference, understand why this matters, and

3. Explore examples of how population health fits within the health system building blocks. ... 7. Understand importance of health information systems and how to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework.

The module is explicitly informed by the planetary health education framework (Guzman et al 2021). ... Describe how planetary health issues are related to social justice and wider social issues.

with health, the factors which may determine their variation, public health impact and policy. ... Pre-requisites:. Principles of Epidemiology, Principles of Biostatistics, and Principles of Public Health.

MPhil Population Health Sciences. Infectious disease modelling. Infectious Disease Modelling. Module Aims:.

Demonstrate awareness of the practicalities of doing applied health research, particularly within primary care settings. ... Describe the range of research designs used in applied health research, and be able to provide a justification for using a

MPhil Population Health Sciences. Geostatistical modelling. Geostatistical models for public health applications.

Module Aims:. This introductory module aims to familiarise students with qualitative and mixed methods research approaches used in population health science research. ... Outline the major qualitative and mixed methods approaches used in population

MPhil Population Health Sciences. Applied machine learning. Applied Machine Learning in Bioinformatics. ... Module Aims: This module aims to link the fundamental concepts presented in “Introduction to Machine Learning” to practical examples

Describe, implement, and interpret a range of statistical methods in the context of population health studies. ... Familiarity with the R statistical software. Familiarity with the types of research questions of interest in population health science.

The module will cover aspects of nutritional epidemiology including dietary assessment, associations of diet and nutrition with health, public health impact and policy. ... Identify and explain challenges in nutritional epidemiology and how they impact

For this reason, after graduating from Harvard with a degree in Economics, she pursued an MPhil in Public Health at the University of Cambridge (2019 u2013 2020) to strengthen epidemiological research ... has been an integral part of my academic