Resources

5. Summer Course on RMHS 2014

Recommended Books

  1. Epidemiology: An Introduction. Kenneth J. Rothman, 2012, Oxford University Press, Boston.
  2. Principles of Biostatistics. Marcello Pagano and Kimberlee Gauvreau, 2000, Boston.
  3. An Introduction to STATA for health researchers. Svend Juul, second edition, 2008, Stata Press.

This is a Koç University graduate level course under International Special Programs (ISP 550)

Presentations

Önder Ergönül, MD, MPH

  • Introduction to Epidemiology
  • Types of Study Design and Cohort Studies
  • Case Control Studies

Pınar Ay, MD, MPH

  • Cross-sectional Studies
  • Statistical Inference

Alpay Azap, MD

  • Descriptive Epidemiology

Hale Arık Taşyıkan, MD, MPH

  • Nonparametric Tests
  • Sources of Error Bias and Confounding

Anıl Dolgun, PhD

  • Correlation
  • Practicum: Correlation

Susan Kornetsky, PhD

  • Criteria for IRB/REC Approval: Translating Ethics into Review
  • An Investigator’s Responsibility for Protection of Research Subjects: Ethics & Good Clinical Practice
  • The Internet and Social Media: Research Ethical Issues
  • Informed Consent: What Investigators Need to Know

Kürşad Tosun, PhD

  • Introduction to R

Barış Ata, MD, MSc

  • Randomized Clinical Trials