33rd International Summer School of Epidemiology

 

COURSE 4: Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology

Tania Desrosiers

This course is an introduction to the epidemiology of reproductive and perinatal health areas such as fertility, fetal loss, preterm delivery, birth defects, severe maternal morbidity and mortalit, and early childhood neurodevelopment. Using current topics and examples from the literature, we will focus on the methodological challenges inherent in epidemiologic studies of these outcomes as well as in investigations of developmental origins of later health and disease including study design, exposure assessment during pregnancy, case ascertainment and major sources of bias.