The Mississippi Public Health Institute, serving as the Community-Based Training Partner for the Region IV Public Health Training Center at Emory University presents a series of virtual epidemiology workshops. All workshops will feature interactive skill building exercises and will include a closing Q&A session.

This workshop will focus on the essential skills of epidemiology. Articles representing specific study designs will be linked for participants’ review prior to the work-shop. After this workshop, participants will be able to:

Explain the role of quantitative and qualitative methods in describing and assessing a population’s health

Discuss the science of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in population health, including health promotion, screening, etc

Discuss the common study designs utilized in public health research, along with their strengths and weaknesses, and appropriate measures of association.

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