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Held On: | Mon 7/20/2015 - Fri 7/24/2015 | |||
Location: | The University of Alabama at Birmingham Executive Learning Center (ELC) 6th floor 1705 University Blvd, SPHB 640 Birmingham AL 35233 |
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Lodging Options: (within walking distance) |
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Birmingham 808 South 20th Street Birmingham, AL 35205 (205) 933-9000 Residence Inn Birmingham |
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Overview
The identification of causal relations is fundamental to a science of intervention and prevention. Obesity is a major problem for which much progress in understanding, treatment, and prevention remains to be made. Understanding which social and behavioral factors cause variations in adiposity and which other factors cause variations is vital to producing, evaluating, and selecting among intervention and prevention strategies as well as to understanding obesity’s root causes, requiring input from disciplines including statistics, economics, psychology, epidemiology, mathematics, philosophy, and in some cases behavioral or statistical genetics. The application of these techniques, however, does not involve routine well-known ‘cookbook’ approaches but requires understanding of underlying principles, so the investigator can tailor approaches to specific and varying situations. The nine course modules provide rigorous exposure to the key fundamental principles underlying a broad array of techniques and experience in applying those principles and techniques through guided discussion of real examples in obesity research.
Schedule of Events: [PDF file]
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Contact Information:
Logistics: Richard Sarver
UAB SOPH Dean's office
Office of Energetics & Nutrition Obesity Research Center
1700 University Boulevard, LHL 434
Birmingham AL 35294-0013
Phone: (205) 975-9169
Email: rsarver@uab.edu
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NIH Disclaimer:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Institutes of Health under Grant No. (R25HL124208). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health.