Graduate Prerequisites: (SPHEP 775) or consent of instructor. - Methodological rigor is essential for social epidemiology to improve our understanding of social determinants of health and to inform interventions and policies that enhance health equity. Improving the methodological rigor of social epidemiologic research requires understanding the unique challenges and questions of interest in social epidemiology. This course covers key factors we need to consider to critically consume evidence from the social epidemiologic literature and to identify gaps for future research. This course is not intended to be a general epidemiologic methods course. Rather, this course provides an overview of recent discussions on methodological issues specific to social epidemiology.

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