Study Design for Veterinary Epidemiological Research

In this course you will learn the “state-of-the-art” in veterinary epidemiology. the course will focus on those aspects that are specific for epidemiology in animal health, but these concepts are relevant also in many other situations.

For instance, structured polulations (e.g. individuals grouped by herd, farm or pen) are common in animal health epidemiology, but also not uncommon in human epidemiology (e.g. nursing homes). You will learn to apply epidemiological and statistical methods, specific for structured populations during hands-on computer practical and lectures.

• To know how to analyze epidememiological data sets of structured (animal) populations, which include the application and interpretation of methods to deal with clustered data.
• To be able to distinguish between risk, probabilities and disease causation.
• To be able apply the correct study design to animal health problems.
• To be able to design sampling schemes to estimate incidence and prevalence at the right epidemiological unit (e.g. animal, herd, country).
• To be able to determine diagnostic test characteristics for tests with and without gold standard.

Our courses are aimed at clinical researchers, nurses, general practitioners, and other health professionals who want to improve their skills in epidemiology, statistics and (clinical) research.

1 week, fulltime