EPIDEM 241Epidemiology of Obesity and Diabetes
Epidemiology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Overview of epidemiology of obesity and diabetes. Students are exposed to most important research in this area. Focus includes global and regional epidemic of obesity and diabetes, risk factors and complications, classifications and assessments, prevention and management, as well as methodological issues related to study design and measurements for conducting obesity and diabetes research in large populations. Encourages students’ creative thinking and improves their skills for scientific writing and oral communications through individual and team assignments.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 100 or 200A or Public Health 200A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.90 · from text- · "PUB HLT 200A" is not in this catalog version
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EPIDEM 241
- EPIDEM 100Principles of Epidemiology
- EPIDEM 200AMethods I: Basic Concepts and Study Designs
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.