Full Title

Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Sponsors

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Location

Baltimore, Maryland

Years in Place

34th

Types & Dates of Offerings

• One-week morning or afternoon courses, N= 37
• Two-week courses, N=2
• Three week course, N=1
• Online courses, N=5,
• Workshops, N=4

Total Number of Offerings

49

Language

English

Number of Faculty

45  Most are from Hopkins

Target audience

Health care professionals, public health and primary health care practitioners, physicians in training, and students.

Cost

For academic credit, $1050 per credit

For non-academic credit, $528 per credit except for data analysis workshops which are more expensive

Deadline for registration

June 12 or before classes begin

Online application and registration

Limit on participants

No limits, space permitting

Course Director(s)

Moyses Szklo

Contact Information

Ayesha Khan, akhan6@jhu.edu, 410-955-7158

http://www.jhsph.edu/summerepi

Editor’s Comments

The summer program at Johns Hopkins is the second oldest summer program and the second largest drawing approximately 450-500 participants each year. Faculty are primarily from Hopkins.

The program at Hopkins has a focus on epidemiologic methods for public health research and practice. This is evidenced by courses such as Applications of the Case Control Method and a “Professional Epidemiologic Methods” track which includes courses on surveillance, health situation analysis, and epidemiologic intelligence.

Hopkins has launched a Certificate Program in Epidemiology for Public Health

Professionals and the summer program is an opportunity for certificate seekers to fulfill required courses for the certificate. Other practice-oriented offerings include Epidemiology in Evidence-Based Policy, Global Cancer Epidemiology, Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis, and Investigation of Outbreaks.

The most subscribed course continues to be Principles of Epidemiology which attracts degree candidates, persons thinking about starting a career in epidemiology, and those already part of the public health workforce but looking for a foundation course in epidemiology, according Ayesha Khan, program coordinator.

New courses this year include:

·         US-Based National Health Surveys: Their Application and Associated Research Methods,

·         Physical Activity and Public Health: Monitors, Measures, and Methods and

·         Global Sensitivity Analysis of Randomized Trials with Missing Data and Death: Methods and Software,

The program also includes online courses on the Principles of Genetic Epidemiology, the first of which begins on May 26.

The Hopkins online courses are not “on demand” such as the courses offered by Coursera but are cohort-based and a group begins and ends the course together. Live communication and interaction are built-in as the course progresses and students meet at set times via computer.

As with several of the other programs, the Hopkins program has evolved over the years as it tries to be responsive to the time constraints that many persons have. A wide-variety of formats, both online and onsite, are offered to make the learning as flexible and accessible as possible, according to Khan.