25 Online programmes offered by the university

The aim of the Epidemiology Postgraduate programme at Utrecht University is to provide you with extensive knowledge and practical skills in patient-oriented research design, implementation, quantitative analysis and its application to human or veterinary medicine and public health.

 Geographical Information Management and Applications (GIMA) from Utrecht University is a two-year joint-degree Master of Science programme, available in both part-time and full-time modes. 

The Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Studies course from Utrecht University consists of plenary presentations, small-group discussions, and computer exercises using the statistical software package R.

The Mixed Models course from Utrecht University will focus primarily on continuous outcome variables, but attention will also be paid to dichotomous and count data.

Diagnostic research in the past focused particularly on estimating the sensitivity and specificity of individual diagnostic tests. This online Advanced Diagnostic Research course from Utrecht University will demonstrate that this so called ‘test research’ is not necessarily the same as diagnostic research.

This online Classical Methods in Data Analysis course from Utrecht University, offered by the MSc Epidemiology program of the UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University, provides an understanding of the basic applications of biostatistics in the analysis of medical research data.

The aim of this hands-on Applied Economic Modeling for the Veterinary Sciences course from Utrecht University is to enable you to become familiar with using the relevant tools so that you can become more actively involved in economic decision-making, particularly with regard to disease control.

The aim of this Economic Principles and Concepts for the Veterinary Sciences course from Utrecht University, which is intended for participants with an interest in the field of animal health economics, is to provide you with the basic economic principles and concepts that underlie decision-making about animal health problems.

This online Clinical Trials and Drug Risk Assessment course from Utrecht University addresses the principles of studying the effects of drug treatments on the risks of unintended effects.

This Fundamentals of Global Health course from Utrecht University introduces the principles and scope of global health and health-related strategies important for an understanding of health and disease in a global context.

This online Survival Analysis course from Utrecht University will give an introduction to survival analysis and cover many of the types of survival data and analysis techniques regularly encountered in epidemiologic research. 

The Introduction to Statistics course from Utrecht University will provide you with a basic understanding of statistics. Geared towards people studying and working in the health domain, the course will enable you to interpret research data, and to explain and use different types of variables.

This Public Health Epidemiology course from Utrecht University will enhance your understanding of public health epidemiology, the science upon which public health is based. 

Have you ever wondered how you can present your research results in a more confident manner? In this Presenting Your Research Confidently course from Utrecht University you will learn how to improve both your preparation and your presentation skills. 

This Clinical Epidemiology course from Utrecht University focuses on the principles and practice of clinical epidemiology, and elaborates on examples from relevant literature.

In this online Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis of Prognosis Research course at Utrecht University for researchers we discuss and practice how to define your review questions, how to search the literature, how to critically assess the methodological quality of primary prognosis studies, and which statistical methods to use for their synthesis. 

The purpose of this Prognostic Research course from Utrecht University is to redress this imbalance. We will therefore discuss the principles and methods of non-experimental prognostic research, together with the practice of prognostic research in a clinical setting. 

During this Research Ethics - an Introduction course from Utrecht University, you will tackle these and other issues, while learning to apply theoretical insights to recent cases.

This Systematic Reviews in Intervention Research course from Utrecht University will offer a mix of lectures and practicals that will help the student to perform all of these steps in practice. In addition, specific challenges to systematic reviews and new developments will be highlighted.

During this online Modern Methods in Data Analysis course from Utrecht University, offered by the MSc Epidemiology program of the UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University, you will learn to use statistical methods to study the association between (multiple) determinants and the occurrence of an outcome event.