Current courses

METHODS IN SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY (EPIB 648)

​Social epidemiology is an area of specialization within the broader discipline of epidemiology that examines how social phenomena influence population health. This course will introduce students to contemporary issues in the field, with a particular focus on challenges to measuring complex social variables and drawing causal inferences in the face of alternative explanations. Students will gain conceptual knowledge and analytic skills immediately applicable to research within and beyond social epidemiology, as well as new insights on topics regularly discussed in politics and the media including the use of social media, loneliness, and inequalities in health between people of different genders, races, socioeconomic positions, etc. Students will leave the course with an understanding of the relevance of social epidemiology to some of the most important questions in public health and a deep appreciation for the challenges to conducting research in this area.

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SEX, GENDER, AND POPULATION HEALTH

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I am currently developing a new course on this subject that will be taught for the first time in the 2026-27 academic year.