Teaching epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. The new edition of Teaching Epidemiology helps you to do this and, by providing world-expert teachers' advice on how best to structure teaching, providing a unique insight into what has worked in their hands. This book will help you to tailor your own epidemiology teaching programme.The fourth edition of this established text has been fully revised and updated, drawing on new research findings and recently developed methods including research technologies in genetic epidemiology and method development in relation to causal analysis. Analytical tools provide teachers in the field with the skills to guide students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Each chapter in Teaching Epidemiology comprises key concepts in epidemiology, subject specific methodologies, and disease specific issues, to provide expert assistance in the teaching of a wide range of epidemiology courses.

Part 1: Context; 1 Rodolfo Saracci: Introducing the history of epidemiology; 2 Olli S. Miettinen: Important concepts in epidemiology; 3 Jorn Olsen and Olga Basso: Study Design; 4 Per Kragh Andersen: Statistics in epidemiology; 5 Kenneth J. Rothman and Sherri O. Stuver: Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods; Part 2: Exposure-oriented Epidemiology; 6 Jakob Bue Bjorner and Jorn Olsen: Questionnaires in epidemiology; 7 Anders Ahlbom: Environment; 8 Neil Pearce: Occupational epidemiology; 9 Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Diana Kuh: Life course epidemiology; 10 Susan Jick: Pharmacoepidemiology; 11 Walter C. Willett: Nutritional epidemiology; 12 Harry Campbell and Susan Service: Genetic epidemiology; 13 Betsy Foxman: Teaching molecular epidemiology; 14 Nancy Krieger: Social inequalities in health; 15 Ulisses Confalonieri and Shilu Tong: Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom; Part 3: Outcome-oriented Epidemiology; 16 Marc Lipsitch: Infectious disease epidemiology; 17 Pagona Lagiou and Dimitrios Trichopoulos: Cancer epidemiology; 18 Rebecca Fuhrer and Kelly K. Anderson: Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology; 19 C. A. Molgaard, A. L. Golbeck, and J. F. Rothrock: Neurologic diseases; 20 Jorn Olsen and Ellen Aagaard Nohr: Reproductive epidemiology; 21 Josep M. Anto: Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology; 22 Eleni Petridou, Patricia Gerakopoulou and Constantine N. Antonopoulos: Epidemiology of injuries; 23 Georgios Tsakos and Vibeke Baelum: Dental epidemiology; 24 John A. Baron, Henrik Toft Sorensen, and Harold C. Sox, Jr.: Clinical epidemiology; 25 Paul Elliott and Anna Hansell: Study of clustering and outbreaks; 26 Henrik Toft Sorensen And John A. Baron: Registries and medical databases; 27 J. H. Abrahamson: Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom; Part 4: Pedagogies; 28 Naomi Greene and Tarun Bhatnagar: Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology