BIOS601: Case Studies in Epidemiology

2021 Student Presentations

• Cholera: Alicia Slides and 2 video clips (MyCourses bios601, Nov 25, 2021)
• Smoking and Lung Cancer: Elham and Sallah
  
  • Program 14, the Question of Causation in this this Against All Odds Video series
  • Richard Doll: The man who stopped smoking by the BMJ.
• Polio: Lily and Caiwei
  • Zoom Recording of in-class presentation (MyCourses bios601, Nov 25, 2021)
  • 53 min. video (MyCourses bios601, Nov 24, 2021)

2019 Student Presentations

• Polio - Hanyun
• Cholera - Victoire Michal
• The History of Water Fluoridation-Shaddam Bagmar.pptx
• Lanarkshire Milk Study - Andi
• SIDS - Yao
• Vitamin D - Haleh
• MMR Vaccines & Autism - Julien

2018 Student Presentations

• The History of Water Fluoridation (.pptx) - Mila Sun
• Understanding Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS):
  Highlights of its Epidemiology and History Maryse Kochoedo and Paritosh K. Roy
• The Polio Story(.pdf) Ting Zhang     Links to written and video material on Polio
• Autism and Vaccination Armando Turchetta
• Ignaz Semmelweis and the Determination of the Cause of Puerperal Fever Yan Liu and Zeyu Bian
• HIV (.pptx) Dirk Douwes-Schultz and Larry Wong
• Cholera - A Story of Epidemiology Kai Yang

2016 Student Presentations

• John Snow: the mode of transmission of Cholera - Zhongya Wang
• The History of Water Fluoridation (.pptx) - Janie Coulombe
• The Polio Story(.pptx) Kaiqiong Zhao     Links to written and video material on Polio

2011 Student Presentations

• Ignaz Semmelweis and Determining the Cause of Puerperal Fever - David, Luc, Aixiang
• John Snow: the mode of transmission of Cholera - Line, Rebecca, Maria
• The Rise and Fall of Hormone Replacement Therapy - Shadeque, Nabila, Aniqa

2009 Student Presentations

• The Rise and Fall of Hormone Replacement Therapy - Sabria
• How blind are the blind? The story of Vitamin C for common cold - Jing
• Don't call my number, anymore! Bias in surveys of sexual behavior - Daniel
• Should we stop drinking coffee? The story of coffee and pancreatic cancer - Shujie
• The early controversy over estrogen and endometrial cancer - Zhe
  
  
• Emile Durkheim and the ecological fallacy - Ben
• The Lanarkshire Milk Experiment (+ Student's critique + Elderton's Re-analysis) - Andy
  ... Full Report of Lanarkshire Milk Experiment
• Double whammy: recall and selection bias in case-control studies of congenital malformations - Chia
• Biases in Survival Analysis - Esther

2007 Student Presentations