To complete this degree, you will take a combination of public health core courses, biostatistics and epidemiology concentration courses, public health electives courses, and public health practical experience courses that together total 54 credits.
Enhance your MPH in Biostatistics with an epidemiology concentration
Take all four courses for a total of 12 credits
- P670 Introduction to Public Health (3 credits)
- P670 Comprehensive Methods Epi/Biostats (3 credits)
- P670 Program Planning and Management (3 credits)
- P670 Leadership and Communication (3 credits)
Take all six courses for a total of 20 credits
- B552 Fundamentals of Data Management (3 credits)
- B562 Biostatistics Public Health II (3 credits)
- B571 Biostat Method I: Linear Models in Public Health (4 credits)
- B572 Biostat Method II: Categorical Data Analysis (4 credits)**
- E601 Advanced Epidemiology (3 credits)**
- E635 Foundation in Public Health Informatics (3 credits)
**Note: that some courses have a lab that is required resulting in 4 credit hours.
- E602/B602 Internship (3 credits)
Select five elective courses from the list below
- B581 Biostat Computing (3 credits)
- B582 Intro to Clinical Trial (3 credits)
- B583 Applied Multivariate Analysis (3 credits)
- B586 Technical Reporting and Scientific Writing (1 credit)***
- E562 Epidemiology of Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus (3 credits)
- E609 Infectious Disease Epidemiology (3 credits)
- E610 Chronic Disease Epidemiology (3 credits)
- E618 Cancer Epidemiology (3 credits)
- E629 Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology (3 credits)
- E645 Information Exchange for Population Health (3 credits)
- E653 Meta-Analysis (3 credits)
- E675 Fundamentals of Injury Epidemiology (3 credits)
- E765 Nutritional Epidemiology (3 credits)
- E715 Design & Implementation of Observational Studies (3 credits)
- E780 Pharmacoepidemiology (3 credits)
- E795 Cardiovascular Epidemiology (3 credits)
*** Note: this is only a 1 credit hour course.
Final Project Take 1*
- B701/E704 Biostatistics & Epidemiology Concentration Project (3 credits)
- E711 Applied Epidemiological Methods I* (3 credits)
- E712 Applied Epidemiological Methods II* (3 credits)
*Applied Epidemiological Methods courses can be taken in lieu of a final concentration project. Must take both courses (I & II) and will result in one less elective required. Must also have approval from both advisors to enroll in Applied Epidemiological Methods.