Emma Miller is an epidemiologist with particular expertise in hepatitis C, sexually transmissible infections (STI), and substance use. She has extensive experience in the surveillance of communicable diseases and a long history of research in this area. Other streams of research interest include alcohol consumption and its links with cancer, and STI and associated risk behaviours. In various government and academic roles, including in the state surveillance of influenza in Victoria and STI and blood borne viruses in South Australia, she has worked extensively with priority populations primarily affected by substance use issues, including prisoners in the South Australian correctional system. The primary focus of her teaching has been in research methods and epidemiology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at multiple institutions. She has held academic posts at Deakin University, La Trobe University, Flinders University and The University of Adelaide where she is currently an adjunct Associate Professor within the Stretton Institute and continues.

Part I. Thinking Like an Epidemiologist: 1. Thinking critically, problem solving and setting priorities in epidemiology; Part II. Analysing: How Big is the Health Issue?: 2. Talking like an epidemiologist; 3. Making comparisons; Part III. Reasoning: How to Investigate Causes of Death and Ill-health: 4. Opening the epidemiological toolbox; 5. Describing the problem; Part IV. Problem-solving: Why Do Some People Get a Disease, Become Ill, or Get Better?: 6. Measuring exposure and the outcome together; 7. Starting with the outcome; 8. Starting with exposure; 9. Controlling exposure; Part V. Evaluating: Is There a Relationship between Exposure and the Outcome?: 10. Detecting a relationship; Part VI. Decision-making: Could the Relationship be True?: 11. Considering the effect of bias and confounding; 12. Bringing it together.