EPIDEM 271Psychiatric Epidemiology
Epidemiology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Psychiatry epidemiology examines occurrence and distribution of mental health disorders and probable causes and factors that influence their manifestation, trajectory, and outcome. Provides students with knowledge and skills necessary to conceptualize mental health related research questions, properly assess mental health symptoms and diagnostic classifications in their research (e.g., prevalence, incidence, and outcome), and analyze data to advance field of psychiatric epidemiology and better understand how to establish mental health and substance use treatment guidelines.
With respect to measurement, emphasis is given to issues of reliability and validity in studying such disorders—while considering factors such as gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, age, poverty, education, culture, social support, social capital, etc. 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
Requisites: Biostatistics 100B, Public Health 200A, 200B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.70 · from text- · "BIOSTAT 100B" is not in this catalog version
- · "PUB HLT 200A" is not in this catalog version
- · "PUB HLT 200B" is not in this catalog version
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
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.