Program Area: Clinical Health Services Epidemiology

Overview

At the University of Iowa, the Clinical and Health Services Epidemiology program area features faculty, coursework, and research in the areas of clinical epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health services epidemiology, comparative effectiveness research, and intervention and clinical trials.

Students with the following interests and are encouraged to explore this focus area:

  • Infectious diseases
  • Chronic diseases
  • Injury epidemiology
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Hospital epidemiology
  • Psychiatric epidemiology
  • Clinical investigation

Students in the following degree programs are encouraged to consider coursework and project experiences with faculty in the clinical and health services epidemiology focus area:

  • Master of Science in Epidemiology
  • Master of Science in Clinical Investigation
  • Master of Public Health
  • PhD in Epidemiology

Faculty

Primary

Secondary and Adjunct

  • Jess Fiedorowicz
  • Lauris Kaldjean
  • Kathleen Schneider
  • Marin Schweizer
  • Carolyn Turvey

Curriculum

Featured Courses

  • EPID:5500 Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology
  • EPID:6910 Pharmacoepidemiology
  • EPID:6920 Applied Administrative Data Analysis
  • EPID:5210 Meta-analysis of Epidemiologic Studies
  • EPID:6900 Intervention and Clinical Trials
  • EPID:6950 Clinical Research Ethics

Learning Objectives

  • Evaluate need, use, performance and outcomes of health and healthcare products, procedures, interventions, services and programs
  • Advance methods for quantifying health effects of products, interventions, services and programs
  • Contribute to optimizing health of patients
  • Inform clinical and healthcare practice and policy
  • Collaborate and lead multidisciplinary teams to design and conduct observational and interventional research
  • Be competent in a family of related research fields including: outcomes research, health services research, clinical epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and clinical effectiveness research

Emphasis Area Curriculum

Clinical and Health Services Epidemiology PhD Emphasis Area

Centers and Resources

Centers and Institutes

Research Resources