Online

Duration: 16 hours over a two-week period

Time per day: 1-2 hours

Course overview

This online course provides an essential introduction to risk analysis and quantitative risk modeling for food safety and animal health. Exercises and problems will demonstrate core risk analysis functionality and applied food safety and animal health models in R, an open-source software platform. The class combines live sessions led by experienced instructors with self-paced lectures and practical problems to solve. Each topic will include a mixture of lectures, supporting reading material, demonstration of software implementation, and practice problems to solve. EpiX Analytics is an international leader in providing training, consulting, and research in performing risk analysis. Our instructors provide real-life context to theory based on decades of consulting experience in the fields of animal health, food safety, and health risk analysis. Case studies from previous real projects will be presented and discussed to illustrate the combination of various concepts introduced in the course.