Elena Yu, Ph.D.: Courses and Research & Teaching Interests

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Current Research and Teaching Interests

Epidemiology Methods
Epidemiologic Study Designs
Minority Health
Epidemiology of Aging
Psychosocial Epidemiology
Epidemiology of Cancer
Research Methods in Epidemiology

Courses

The following syllabi are best viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download the reader from www.adobe.com

PH720 Critical Readings in Epidemiology and Public Health

Students read a set of papers reporting on recurrent and emerging public health issues. Students learn to weigh the evidence by presenting critiques of the study designs, analytic methods, and statistical inferences.

PH823 Case-Control Studies

Design, conduct, and analysis of case-control studies. Methodologic issues, control of biases and misclassification errors, proper use of stratification and interpretation of logistic regression in study of diseases of multifactorial etiology.

PH824 Cohort Studies

Design, conduct, and application of cohort studies. Cohort study designs, importance of time-varying exposures and outcomes, external and internal validity, and in-depth treatment of approaches to analysis based on cohort sampling methods.

PH825 Grantwriting in Epidemiology and Public Health

Trains students to prepare NIH proposal. Students work with community-based organizations, faculty advisers, expert consultants, institutional review boards, and the SDSU Foundation personnel to complete research proposals and budgets.

Web Sites for Book Acquisition

You can check out the books at our local SDSU Bookstore or you can inquire about the books' availability by sending them an e-mail at ezbooks@sdsu.edu.

There are a number of external web sites students can use to compare the prices of textbooks and to order them online. One site that gives fairly competitive price is: www.ecampus.com.

The quickest way to find textbooks on this site is to search by ISBN (for books) or ISSN (for journals or serials) numbers.

If you have only the title and the author of the books, but no serial number, you might wish to visit: www.bookarea.com.

After you obtain the ISBN or ISSN number, you can compare the price of the book and shipping charge among the three sites and decide which one gives you a better bargain. Delivery is fairly quick --- about a week or less.