Professor Albert Hofman, NIHES Science Director
“The Erasmus Summer Programme focuses on key principles and methods of quantitative medical research. Open to all students and health professionals, it provides essential updates in a range of applied medical and healthcare disciplines.
The first week provides introductory and advanced courses, the second week focuses on methodology courses and the third week on advanced courses. It is possible to enrol for 1, 2 or 3 weeks in a single discipline or to mix and match courses from different disciplines in order to design your own individual programme.
From the academic world, industry, and the public sector we expect some 600 participants from fifty countries around the globe.
Each year, it is exciting to see so many young and talented health professionals embarking on an international career as a researcher, executive or advisor in the health sciences. Health matters, for patients and populations. At NIHES, we are proud to help you realize your high ambitions and look forward to welcoming you this summer.”
This interactive Master Class is based on the recent book by Miettinen and Karp “Epidemiological Research: An Introduction”. It will cover the following five 3-hours sessions: Etiology as a pragmatic concern and object of study; Etiologic studies’ essentials and typology; Etiologic studies’ objects design; Etiologic studies’ methods design; Etiologic studies’ intervention counterparts.
Erasmus Summer Programme 2012 presents a new course: 
Cecile Janssens, Professor of Translational Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam “In this Master Class, timely topics in genomics research will be addressed. Four renowned researchers will address the latest developments in epigenetics, forensic genomics, personalized medicine, whole genome sequencing, and new genetic variants.”
