Summer School: "Nutritional Epidemiology"

The University of Bonn organizes the summer school "Nutritional Epidemiology". This summer school aims to provide participants with in-depth understanding of dietary assessment methods, modeling of dietary exposures, analysis in relation to health outcomes, and nutrition-related intervention research. The target audience for this summer school are academics with a background in nutrition science, health sciences, natural sciences, epidemiology and public health, preferably at MSc or PhD level.

Course objectives

• Familiarize participants with dietary assessment methods
• Guide participants on approaches to model dietary exposures
• Exemplify the evaluation of diet-disease-relationships in population-based studies
• Provide knowledge about nutrition intervention research, incl. design, implementation & evaluation
• Create opportunities to discuss participants’ research questions 

Course assessment

The course will be assessed as:

• 40% in-person participation
• 60% individual and group assignments in practical sessions / group work