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  School of Public Health 2015–2017 Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Programs Epidemiology Curriculum  

Curriculum


Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Curriculum (45 credits) - Department of Epidemiology

Students seeking the M.P.H. in epidemiology degree must complete 45 credits of academic work with an average grade of B or better. Courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted.

CORE COURSES (15 credits)
  • PHCO 0501 - Health Systems and Policy
  • PHCO 0502 - Principles and Methods of Epidemiology (Prerequisite: Quantitative Skills Assessment)
  • PHCO 0503 - Introduction to Environmental Health
  • PHCO 0504 - Introduction to Biostatistics (Prerequisite: Quantitative Skills Assessment)
  • PHCO 0505 - Health Education and Behavioral Science in Public Health

FIELDWORK (6 credits)

  • FDWC 0600 - Fieldwork I (1 credit)
  • FDWC 0601 - Fieldwork II (5 credits)

REQUIRED COURSES (15 credits) 

  • BIST 0551 - Applied Regression Analysis for Public Health Studies
  • EPID 0656 - Intermediate Epidemiologic Research Methods
  • EPID 0657 - Applied Methods in Epidemiologic Research

-also-

Choose one of the following two

  •   BIST 0535 - Biometrics Computing 
  •   HSAP 0515 - Data Analysis for Health Services and Policy

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Choose one of the following four:

  • EPID 0563 - Introduction to Outcomes Research or
  • EPID 0650 - Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology or
  • EPID 0652 - Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases or
  • EPID 0673 - Social Epidemiology

RECOMMENDED ELECTIVE COURSES (9 credits)

  • BIST 0615 - Categorical Data Analysis
  • BIST 0616 - Lifetime Data Analysis
  • BIST 0650 - Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • BIST 0660 - Clinical Trials: Design and Analysis of Medical Experiments
  • BIST 0688 - Statistical Methods in Genetics
  • ENOH 0693 - Principles of Occupational and Environmental Health
  • EPID 0552 - Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • EPID 0591 - GIS for Public Health and Epidemiology
  • EPID 0607 - Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology
  • EPID 0672 - Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management
  • EPID 0753 - Advanced Epidemiologic Research Methods with Applications
  • HEBS 0663 - Intermediate Survey Methods
  • HSAP 0617 - Health Services Research and Evaluation

Students may select a cross-department option leading to a concentration in Quantitative Health Care Assessment. This option requires 45 credits that includes all core courses, credits from the departments of Health Systems and Policy as well as Epidemiology. Six credits of fieldwork approved by the chairs of the departments of Health Systems and Policy and Epidemiology are also required. Please see Department of Epidemiology website for details.


       
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