Curriculum

Requirements Coursework Program Requirements

Program Curriculum:
Choice of Two Formal Tracks

The Epidemiology Ph.D. program is designed for students interested in research and teaching careers in the health sciences. Students will select one of two formal tracks: clinical/biological epidemiology (CBE) or social/behavioral epidemiology (SBE).

The two tracks, with a minimum of 63 credits, emphasize advanced epidemiologic design, methodology and analytic skills. The social/behavioral epidemiology track focuses on origins and development of human behavior patterns and how they are influenced and formed by personality, family, culture, and environment. The clinical/biological epidemiology track focuses on the etiology of diseases, particularly cardiovascular, cancer, and infectious diseases.

Core Curriculum (17 credits + 24 thesis credits)

PhD-level Design and Analysis (two courses, 3 cr each, under development)

Biostatistics [recommend PubH 7401, Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference (4 cr)

Writing Research Grants (PubH 6348, 2 credits)

Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy (PubH 6742, 1 credit)

Seminar in Chronic Disease and Behavioral Epidemiology (PubH 8377, 1 credit)

Teaching in Higher Education (Grad 8101, 3 credits)

Thesis credits (PubH 8888, 24 cr)

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Clinical/Biological track: 22 credits minimum

Biological Methods/statistics (6 cr minimum)

Clinical Trials: Design, Implementation, and Analysis (required) PubH 7420

Choose additional credits from the following courses:

Design and Analysis of Group-Randomized Trials in Epidemiology PubH 6363

Statistical Methods for Correlated Data PubH 7430

Latent Variable Measurement Models and Path Analysis PubH 7435

Analysis of Categorical Data PubH 7407

Hierarchical Linear Modeling in Educational Research EPSY 8268

Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal Data EPSY 8282

Validity Concepts in Epidemiologic Research PubH 8140

Nutrition Assessment PubH 6915

Statistics for Human Genetics & Molecular Biology PubH 7445

Computational Methods in Genetic Epidemiology PubH 6382

Doctoral seminar in Observational Inference PubH 8141

Pathophysiology of Human Disease PubH 6355

 

Content area courses (4 cr minimum)

Choose from the following courses:

Public Health Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases PubH 6386

Cancer Epidemiology PubH 6387

Epidemiology & Control of Infectious Diseases PubH 6385

Genetics in Public Health PubH 6381

Nutritional Epidemiology PubH 6389

Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology PubH 6140

Supporting Program/Minor (12 cr minimum)

Supporting program credits to be chosen with consultation with advisor.

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Social/Behavorial track: 22 credits minimum

Behavioral Methods/statistics (6 cr minimum)

Design and Analysis of Group-Randomized Trials (required) PubH 6363

Choose additional credits from the following courses:

Clinical Trials: Design, Implementation, and Analysis PubH 7420

Statistical Methods for Correlated Data PubH 7430

Latent Variable Measurement Models and Path Analysis PubH 7435

Analysis of Categorical Data PubH 7407

Hierarchical Linear Modeling in Educational Research EPSY 8268

Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal Data EPSY 8282

Validity Concepts in Epidemiologic Research PubH 8140

Nutrition Assessment PubH 6915

Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis EPSY 8264

Applied Multivariate Analysis EPSY 8267

Psychological Scaling EPSY 8221

Content area courses (4 cr minimum)

Human Behavior I, PubH 6333 2 cr.

Human Behavior II, PubH 6334 2 cr.

Supporting Program/Minor (12 cr minimum)

Supporting program credits to be chosen with consultation with advisor.