Enrollment guidelines

This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.

Learning objectives

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. understand diet reporting bias and consequences
2. understand methodological considerations related to measurement error, energy adjustment and substitution
3. understand the principles and use of Mendelian randomization
4. understand the potential, use and limitations of nutri-“omics”
5. understand collider bias and mediation in nutritional epidemiology

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.

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.

Language

English

Form

Lectures, group work, discussions, exercises.

Course director

Berit L. Heitmann, berit.lilienthal.heitmann@regionh.dk

Teachers

TBA

Allocation of seats