Course: Pitt falls and methodological considerations in nutritional epidemiology
Aim and content
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list.
Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
- Understand diet reporting bias and consequences
- Understand methodological considerations related to measurement error, energy adjustment and substitution
- Understand the principles and use of Mendelian randomization
- Understand the potential, use and limitations of nutri-“omics”
- Apply directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and graphical causal model theory
Content
The aim of the course is to provide PhD.-students with basic knowledge in the epidemiology of human nutrition with an introduction to more advanced methodologies within nutritional epidemiology; Correlated data, adjustment for total energy, correction for measurement error, bias, evaluation of diet intake, biomarkers, molecular nutrition and diet and health.
See the full programme.
Participants
PhD students with basic knowledge in epidemiology and nutrition
Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:
Public Health and Epidemiology
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Course director
Berit L. Heitmann, Professor, PhD, berit.lilienthal.heitmann@regionh.dk
Dates
25-11-2019 – 29-11-2019 (5 days)
Course location
Research Unit for Dietary Studies, The Parker Institute
Frederiksberg Hospital
Nordre Fasanvej 57, Vej 8, Indgang 19
2000 Frederiksberg
Registration
Please register before 01-11-2019
Register here or read some more about this event.
Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.