Welcome to the CoursePlus Web site for REPRODUCTIVE AND PERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGY (380.664.01), a course offered by the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Focuses on current research, controversial issues and methodological approaches about the epidemiology of reproductive and perinatal health. Selected topics include, but are not limited to, conception, infertility, contraception, hormone supplementation, reproductive related cancers, complications of pregnancy, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Includes short lectures on selected topics, followed by student-directed discussion of research readings and their public health implications.

Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

• Review the fundamental biologic and methodological underpinnings of reproduction health concerns and pregnancy and perinatal outcomes
• Identify key conceptual paradigms and methodological challenges in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology and evaluate how they affect study findings about selected outcomes
• Evaluate the contribution of sociodemographic, behavioral, and biologic risk factors for adverse outcomes, and to review the mechanisms for observed epidemiologic associations
• Critically review epidemiologic research about selected reproduction health concerns and of pregnancy and perinatal outcomes and different forms of evidence in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology
• Apply the findings of epidemiologic findings and concepts to clinical and public health policies and controversies.

Tue Thu   1:30 PM to 3:20 PM

Donna Strobino
E-mail: dstrobin@jhsph.edu
 
Caroline Moreau
E-mail: cmoreau@jhsph.edu
 

340.601 or equivalent

Graduate Students

Grading Policy: Student evaluation based on presentations, written assignments, and class participation.

Grading Restrictions: Letter grade

Donna Strobino
E-mail: dstrobin@jhsph.edu
Caroline Moreau
E-mail: cmoreau@jhsph.edu