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Community Health:

Master of Public Health

Assess community needs. Develop innovative solutions. Implement impactful programs and policies. Focus on prevention. Build stronger, healthier communities.

Degree Major

Epidemiology


The MPH in Epidemiology is an on-campus program that provides education and training in the course areas of public health with a focus on developing strong analytical skills to research the distribution and determinants of disease and other health-related events. The Epidemiology major is STEM designated degree with CIP code 26.1309.

Core Curriculum

In the first year of the MPH program, students take classes in the following areas of public health:

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Appreciation of the concepts used to prevent environmental conditions that may threaten health. Topics include air pollution, water supply management, waste management, radiation protection, food hygiene, occupational health and disaster management.

Total Hours: 4

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Theory and practice of public health promotion as they relate to educational approaches in solving community health problems.

Total Hours: 4

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Introduction to the fundamental concepts and principles of epidemiology and demonstrate their applicability in the field of public health.

Total Hours: 4

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Topics include descriptive statistics & graphics, reliability, sample size estimation, contingency table analysis, analysis of group differences, survival analysis, correlation & linear regression. Emphasizes use of computerized statistical software.

Total Hours: 4

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Comprehensive analysis of healthcare policy process in the US; systematic & critical review of policy development, implementation, & evaluation; impact of government at all levels & the role of providers, industry, labor, & consumer in health policy.

Total Hours: 4

Curriculum

To fulfill the program’s Epidemiology-specific competencies and gain expertise in this specific discipline of Public Health, all students take five courses relating to Epidemiology. Four out of five courses are pre-determined by the program. Students choose their final course from the approved list of courses.

HK 513: Introduction to 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..

Hours: 4

HK 528: Applied Epidemiology

Students receive in-depth coverage of the design and analysis of analytic studies (case-control, cohort, and intervention) with an emphasis on examples from chronic diseases. Group and computer exercises provide hands-on experience in solving epidemiological problems and analyzing epidemiological problem sets.

Hours: 4

HK 531: Advanced Biostatistics

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 Power & Sample Size Calculations, Descriptive Statistic, General & Generalized Linear Models, Categorical Data Analysis, Longitudinal Data Analysis, and Survival Analysis. This course will also strengthen students’ statistical analysis and programming skills in SAS and/or STATA.

Hours: 4

HK 533: Analytical Epidemiology

This course provides students in-depth coverage of 1) the design of epidemiological research studies and 2) the analysis of epidemiological data. This course will expand student’s analytical, writing, and oral communication skills using in-class group exercises, take-home computer exercises, and a course project.

Hours: 4