Nutritional Epidemiology and Biostatistics

The course aims at providing knowledge of appropriate methodological tools to evaluate, also through the critical analysis of the literature, the appropriateness and validity of studies and tools to quantify how nutrition can influence the health of a population. Moreover, define the most suitable type of study to answer questions related to the relationship between nutrition and health in the general population and the related computational methods, provide knowledge on the main analysis tools in nutritional epidemiology, and how to critically evaluate a scientific article.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to recognize the various types of studies used in the nutritional field, evaluate the possible biases, design appropriate ones according to the nutritional research question and critically read the reference literature.