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| The Department offers two academic tracks [Applied Epidemiology and Epidemiologic Research] to meet the demands of our expanding, diverse student body. Information on choosing courses follows. - Principles of Epidemiology (340.601) offered summer, first term, and summer institute
[Fundamentals of Epidemiology I and II (550.894 and 550.895 together) or Principles of Epidemiology I and II (340.621 and 340.622 together) may also fulfill this requirement] - Observational Epidemiology (340.608) offered second and third terms
- Topics in Applied Epidemiology (in development) to be offered third term
The Applied Epidemiology Track will address the growing needs of students who desire experience with epidemiology beyond Principles of Epidemiology (340.601) but do not plan to design epidemiologic or clinical research. The focus of this sequence is on the application of epidemiology to public health problems, as utilized in health departments, health interventions, and health policy. In this course sequence, we expect students to develop competencies in epidemiology, communications, leadership, and analytic assessment skills. Students who begin in the Applied Epidemiology track will not be able to transfer into the Epidemiologic Research track mid-sequence. This is the course methods sequence required by the degree programs within the Department: Epidemiology master’s and doctoral students, MPH students in the Concentration in Epidemiological & Biostatistical Methods for Public Health & Clinical Research, and other master’s and doctoral students who will be conducting epidemiologic or clinical research take this sequence of courses. Graduates will have a strong understanding of epidemiologic inference and multi-level modeling, be able to design and analyze epidemiologic studies, and effectively interpret and report results from such studies. Similar to the Biostatistics core sequences, we strongly recommend that students enroll in all three courses of the Epidemiologic Research track, as the scope of topics can only be understood within the broader context of the sequence. The first three courses (340.751 to 340.753) will form the required core sequence for all Epidemiology Masters, Doctoral and MPH students (in the Concentration in Epidemiological & Biostatistical Methods for Public Health & Clinical Research) and the fourth course (340.754 - Methodologic challenges in epidemiologic research) will be required only for Epidemiology doctoral students, and others at the discretion of their departments or programs. The proposed sequence of courses is synchronous with the Biostatistics 620 sequence, which also focuses on design issues in Quarter 2 and regression models in Quarter 3. This will allow certain details of statistical methodology to be taught in the Biostatistics sequence at roughly the same time the methods are covered in the Epidemiology sequence. |
