POPHS 820
Pharmacoepidemiology and Population Health
Sudha Raman
Description from DukeHub
This course will introduce students to pharmacoepidemiology, defined as the application of epidemiological methods to study the use, safety and effectiveness of medication in populations. Students will learn to define and describe medication use, and safety and effectiveness outcomes using real-world data, as well as analytic and design approaches to recognize, quantify and reduce bias. This course will integrate a population health perspective, focusing on how pharmacoepidemiology evidence can inform equitable policy, regulatory and clinical decision making and the intersection of pharmacepidemiology with pragmatic trial design, implementation science, and patient centered research methods.
Skills
- designdescription: "design" and 1 more
- policy and lawdescription: "policy" and 1 more
- clinicaldescription: "clinical" and 1 more
- data and statisticsAI review: "using real-world data, as well as analytic and design approaches"
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- Yes: Live work with people · "clinical"
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
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