Epidemiology

The Epidemiology program offered at University of Antwerp is unique in Flanders. It will give you knowledge, skills and competences to design and conduct epidemiological research addressing questions on etiology, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment or prognosis of disease (illness), or on the enhancement or maintenance of health.

program details

During the first year of the Epidemologyprogram at the University of Antwerp , the focus is on deepening your knowledge in the field of epidemiology, statistics and research methods. You will also become acquainted with the practice by attending seminars and workplace visits.

In the second year you will focus mainly on your own research for your Master's thesis. You will get to know the different fields of epidemiology, like infectious disease epidemiology, clinical epidemiology and environmental epidemiology. You will expand your methodological knowledge in the course Advanced Methods in Epidemiology and learn how to convert theory into practice in the course Public Health, Policy and Practice.

In addition, our program includes qualitative research. Qualitative research can be used to place or explain the results of quantitative studies in context or to generate hypotheses that can then be tested by quantitative epidemiological studies.

All study programs at the University of Antwerp received accredidation from NVAO (Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation).

Courses Included:

• Classic and Modern Methods of Epidemiology

• Data Management and Statistical Software

• Introduction to Statistics

• Research Project

• Classic and Modern Methods of Data Analysis

• Metrics: Exposure and Outcome Assessment

• Workplace Visits

• Qualitative Research