Tobias Kurth
Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Other Affiliations
Director of Research, Unit 708—Neuroepidemiology, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) and University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Associate Epidemiologist, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Research
My principal areas of research consist of three main focuses:
- the interrelationship between vascular risk factors, neurological diseases, and cardiovascular disease with particular focus on migraine, stroke, restless legs syndrome, and Parkinson’s disease [neuroepidemiology/cardiovascular epidemiology];
- the evaluation of risks and benefits of medication use [pharmacoepidemiology]
- the evaluation of methods to control for confounding, particularly the propensity score [epidemiologic methods].
Education
M.D., 1996, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany
M.Sc. (Epidemiology), 2000, Harvard School of Public Health
Sc.D. (Epidemiology), 2003, Harvard School of Public Health