EPIDEM 415Practicing Epidemiology in Government Health Agencies
Epidemiology · 2 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Introduction to practice-based concepts for conducting epidemiology in a local or state health agency. Topics include funding issues, data sources, study design concerns, bureaucratic challenges, use of epidemiology for evidence-based decision-making, and communication of findings to lay audiences.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
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 200B.
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confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EPIDEM 415
- EPIDEM 200BMethods II: Prediction and Validity
- EPIDEM 200AMethods I: Basic Concepts and Study Designs
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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.