Epidemiology

Petra Buettner is a Senior Epidemiologist and Biostatistician within the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences at James Cook University. She has three major roles at JCU: lecturing Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Research Methodology; supervising Research Students; and researching with a main research focus on the epidemiology of skin cancer. Reinhold Muller is a Senior Epidemiologist and Biostatistician within the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences at James Cook University. He has very comprehensive experience in the conduct of a wide range of epidemiological and medical research studies and in teaching quantitative research methodology.

1. What is Epidemiology? ; 2. Disease Concepts in Epidemiology ; 3. Identification of Disease - Diagnostic Tests and Screening ; 4. Measures of Disease Frequency ; 5. From Research Topic to Research Hypothesis ; 6. Quantitative Descriptive Study Designs ; 7. Experimental Designs ; 8. Observational Designs ; 9. Sources of Bias ; 10. Sampling Strategy and Sample Size ; 11. Quantitative Methods of Data Collection ; 12. Statistics with Confidence ; 13. Ethical Considerations ; 14. Reading and Writing Publications