Course Quantitative exposure assessment in occupational and environmental epidemiology - RESIDENTIAL COURSE

The course P224/8 Quantitative exposure assessment in occupational and environmental epidemiologyis being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, Sunday 26 October 2025 17.00 PM - Friday 31 October 2025 14.00 PM.

Criteria for participation: 
University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Requirements for participation:
Participants who have followed the basic PhD course in epidemiology or a similar course. It is expected that participants are familiar with logistic and linear regression analysis and are familiar with STATA or R

Aim: 
The objective of this PhD course is to familiarise participants to modern statistical methods for analyses of exposure data, in order to improve exposure effect analyses in occupational and environmental epidemiological studies.

Learning outcomes: 
The teaching goal is to train the participants, so they are able to evaluate literature on the topic and to perform basal analyses themselves after the course.
After the course, the participants will be able to:

• Understand basic concept of exposure and exposure variability
• Understand the theory of bias and random error, within and between person variability, and
  attenuation of exposure-response
• Perform random effect analyses to estimate determinants of exposure and understand implications for within and between person variability
• Understand the construction and applications of Job Exposure Matrices for exposure assessment
• Based on the above skills, be able to design exposure assessment strategies for different types of exposure in occupational and environmental studies
• Evaluate advantages and drawbacks for different exposure metrics in epidemiological studies

Workload:
The full workload of the course is expected to be 85 hours

Content: 
The course is interactive with substantial student participation in lectures, participants' presentation of own projects, groups exercises and recaps every morning. The course language is English.

Instructors: 

• Vivi Schlünssen (VS), Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, DK
• Prof Alex Burdorf (AB), Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL
• Dr Susan Peters (SP), Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, NL
• Ass. prof Annett Dalbøge (AD), Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University
  Hospital, DK
• Prof Henrik Kolstad (HK), Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, DK
• Prof Esben Budtz-Jørgensen (EBJ), Department of Public Health Science, Copenhagen University,
  DK
• Researchers working within the field from Danish Ramazzini Centre: www.ramazzini.dk

Venue: 
The Sandbjerg Estate - Aarhus University Conference Centre, Sandbjergvej 102, 6400 Sønderborg, Denmark

Course fee:

• PhD students, research-year students from Health, Aarhus University. An expected payment for accommodation of DKK 2543,76 will be charged.
• PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration. An expected payment for accommodation of DKK 2543,76 will be charged.
• PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses. An expected payment for accommodation of DKK 2543,76 will be charged.
• All others: An expected payment for accommodation of DKK 2543,76 + the course fee DKK 4200 = DKK 6743,76 will be charged

Course dates:

• 26 October 2025 17:00 - 21:00
• 27 October 2025 09:00 - 18:00
• 28 October 2025 08:30 - 17:30
• 29 October 2025 08:30 - 21:00
• 30 October 2025 08:30 - 22:00
• 31 October 2025 08:30 - 14:00