Johns Hopkins Summer Pharmacoepidemiology Course
June 28 - July 2, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland

This year’s course will be taught by Harry A. Guess, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology in the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Public Health, and Director of the UNC GlaxoSmithKline Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology.

This course will cover drug development, clinical trials including non-inferiority trials, pharmacovigilance, therapeutic risk management, and measurement properties of screening tests in the context of pharmacoepidemiology. We will also discuss approaches to anticipating and reducing common sources of bias in observational studies of drug effects. This includes confounding by indication, protopathic bias, and channeling. In addition, we will also discuss how incidence may be affected by prior exposure, depletion of susceptibles, or by current duration of therapy and we will examine how this may be accounted for in cohort and case control studies. We will briefly introduce other study designs used in pharmacoepidemiology including case-crossover, self-controlled case-series, case-time-control, and prescription sequence analysis. Throughout the course we will introduce and discuss examples of published studies that illustrate important concepts. (2 academic credits)

For registration: please contact: Ayesha Khan, Program Coordinator, Department of Epidemiology,tel:410-955-7158; fax:410-955-0863; email: akhan@jhsph.edu

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