Epidemiology: Concepts & Methods
A five-day short course · IISc Bengaluru · 21–25 September 2026
A hands-on short course for researchers, public health professionals and students. Lectures alternate with practical work.
By the end you will be able to choose a study design and compute the measures it gives you. You will be able to read those measures correctly, and tell a real effect from a biased one. You will do all of it in R.
Organised by Isaac Centre for Public Health, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
In collaboration with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK
Dates and venue 21–25 September 2026 · IISc, Bengaluru
There are 5 steps to work through before Monday 21 September. Spread them over a few evenings.
Install the software first. It is the one step we cannot fix for you on the day.
The programme is being finalised and will be circulated separately.
Who this is for
Researchers, public health professionals and students.
No programming is assumed. If you have used SPSS, Excel or Stata, you already know most of the statistical ideas. This course changes the tools and sharpens the reasoning.
You need a laptop you can install software on, and a few evenings before the course for the 5 steps.
Faculty
Neil Pearce · Prabhdeep Kaur · Poppy Mallinson · Arun Mitra · Manikandanesan Sakthivel · Uttara Partap
How to use this site
- Before you arrive. 5 steps: install R and RStudio, install the packages, work through the R primers, then the epidemiology primers, then browse the resources. Start here.
- Resources. Cheatsheet, troubleshooting, glossary and further reading. Use these during the course and after it.
Corrections are welcome. Use the Report an issue link at the top right of any page.
Questions about travel, accommodation or logistics go to office.msicph@iisc.ac.in.
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