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International postgraduate programme in epidemiology (IPPE)

IPPE focuses on special fields of epidemiology:

  • cancer and radiation epidemiology
  • nutritional epidemiology
  • epidemiology of diabetes, allergic diseases and asthma
  • geriatric epidemiology

The students will learn basic and in-depth skills in methods of epidemiology and biostatistics including logistic regression, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis and meta-analysis. The program focuses on various fields of epidemiology such as prevention and screening, nutrition, infectious diseases and chronic non-communicable diseases (cancer, diabetes, allergic diseases, asthma), as well as on geriatric, occupational, molecular and radiation epidemiology.

Tentative Curriculum for the Academic Year 2009-2010

All teaching in the IPPE programme is in English. The right to make changes is reserved. The detailed programme as well as more information on registration, exams and changes can be found on our web-site.

Head of the programme:
Professor Suvi Virtanen
E-mail: suvi.m.virtanen@uta.fi

Inquiries:
public.health@uta.fi

Contact person at TSPH:
International coordinator
Catarina Ståhle-Nieminen
Tampere School of Public Health
33014 University of Tampere
Tel. +358 3 3551 7803
Fax: +358 3 3551 6057
E-mail: catarina.stahle-nieminen@uta.fi

Visiting address:
Medisiinarinkatu 3
Room A107 (International coordinator)

The ECTS credit system in brief

ECTS credit (equal to the Finnish 'opintopiste') is a value allocated to course units to describe the student workload required to complete them. They reflect the quantity of work each course requires in relation to the total quantity of work required to complete a full year of academic study at the institution .In ECTS, 60 credits normally represent the workload of a year of full time studies, 30 credits a semester, and 20 credits a term (in a three term system).

The ECTS, 'European Community Course Credit Transfer System', was developed by the Commission of the European Communitites in order to provide common procedures to guarantee academic recognition of studies abroad. It provides a way of measuring and comparing learning achievements, and transferring them from one institution to another.

For more information: http://www.uta.fi/studies/studying/index.html



 
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