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 a minimum GPA of least 3.0; earn no more than 9 credits bearing grades less than B; and complete the degree requirements within six years. 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
-also-
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 Department of Health Systems and Policy as well as the Department of 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.
