The MPH in Epidemiology provides education and training in core public health areas, with a focus on developing strong analytical skills to study the distribution and determinants of disease and other health-related events. This STEM-designated program has CIP code 26.1309.
All MPH students complete a set of core courses before advancing into epidemiology-specific coursework. View the full Core Curriculum.
Epidemiology Curriculum
HK 513: Quantitative Data Management for Public Health
Designed to teach the basics of data management and analysis using R and Stata. Prepares students to clean and summarize quantitative data for scientific reporting, generate visualization products that communicate data to a variety of audiences, and manage data and analytic code using best practices for reproducibility. Recommended for students without (or with minimal) prior statistical computing training who are interested in careers in public health, epidemiology, or other fields which use public health data.
Credit: 4 Hours
HK 528: Applied Epidemiology
Advanced epidemiologic analysis of disease problems. Covers research designs including cohort, case-control, and intervention trials; methods of analysis including multivariate adjustment for confounding and description of effect modification; and application of statistical computer software with emphasis on chronic diseases.
Credit: 4 Hours
HK 531: Advanced Biostatistics
The aim of this advanced course is to further develop students’ skills in a broad range of statistical methods applied in the health sciences. Methods covered in this course will primarily focus on those used to analyze and interpret data collected from observational studies and clinical trials. The course will cover the following topics power & sample size calculations, descriptive statistic, general & generalized linear models, categorical data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis.
Credit: 4 Hours
HK 533: Analytical Epidemiology
The aim of this advanced epidemiology course is to provide students in-depth coverage of the design of epidemiologic research studies and the analysis of epidemiologic data. This course will expand analytical, writing, and oral communication skills using in-class group exercises, take-home computer exercises, and a course project.
Credit: 4 Hours
Concentration Course of Choice
Major Course of Choice (select minimum of 4 hours from the following list):
| HK 406 | Cancer Epidemiology | 3 or 4 |
| HK 412 | Infectious Disease Epidemiology | 3 or 4 |
| HK 413 | Chronic Disease Epidemiology | 3 or 4 |
| HK 419 | Artificial Intelligence in Public Health | 3 or 4 |
| HK 424 | Emergency Preparedness, Planning and Response | 3 or 4 |
| HK 512 | Grant Writing for Health Professionals | 4 |
| HK 516 | Chronic Disease Prevention | 4 |
| HK 519 | Health Program Evaluation | 4 |
| HK 532 | Cultural Humility in Health | 4 |
| HK 550 | Research Methods in Health and Kinesiology | 4 |
| HK 570 | Physical Activity Surveillance | 4 |
| HK 571 | Physical Activity Determinants, Correlates and Consequences | 4 |
| HK 572 | Physical Activity Intervention and Policy | 4 |
| GGIS 403 | Geographic Information Science and Systems | 4 |
| GGIS 439 | Health Applications of GIS | 3 |
| PATH 517 | Principle/Method Epidemiology | 4 |
| PATH 560 | Spatial Epidemiology | 4 |