In Psychiatric Epidemiology, students will review descriptive and analytic epidemiology for major mental disorders of childhood, adulthood, and late adult life. The course will also examine issues of classification and the nosology of psychiatric disorders, as well as operational case definitions and the measurement techniques to enhance field surveys and risk factor research.

We designed this course for students, epidemiologists, public health professionals, and researchers who are interested in mental health and mental disorders, as studied from the public health approach. The course builds upon knowledge of the principles and methods of epidemiology, as might be obtained in an introductory course or an introductory epidemiology textbook. The course does not provide clinical training.

We hope that by the time a student finishes the course, he or she will be able to show an understanding of the basics of the field of psychiatric epidemiology. In addition, students will able to present methodological and conceptual issues that are especially important for psychiatric epidemiology as distinct from general epidemiology.

For additional information, please view an introductory video recorded by Dr. Bill Eaton, the course instructor. (In the video, Dr. Eaton shows three paintings that might be hard to see. For a larger view of these paintings, use this file).

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