Epiemiology PhD Program

The Ph.D program is esigne for stuents who plan to become inepenent researchers in epiemiology. Emphasis is on the evelopment an mastery of epiemiologic an biostatistical skills require for the highest levels of scholarship, investigation, an leaership in public health work. Stuents esign an complete their own investigator-initiate research projects, an are prepare to compete for research grant awars supporte by the National Institutes of Health an other agencies that fun epiemiology research. Learning experiences are pursue through coursework an reaings, apprenticeships with supervising faculty, participation on a research team, an completion of the issertation research project.

CREDITS

51 creits beyon the Master’s egree are require · 6 creits epiemiology courses · 6 creits avance biostatistics courses · 15 creits electives · 24 issertation creits

Non-creit requirements

· Doctoral stuents are require to participate in a monthly Ph.D. Journal Club for four semesters. Stuents are also expecte to atten the seminars presente in the Department of Epiemiology an Biostatistics Seminar Series each semester. · 2-8 years, after having earne a MS or MPH in Epi, stuents have up to 8 years to complete all requirements an efen their octoral issertation.

Scheule

Of the require courses, only EPI 805 is offere every year. (* enotes courses that you may choose between to fulfill requirements)

Fall:

· EPI 805 Historical Roots of Epiemiologic Thought - every year · Epi 828 : every year, one-creit Research Ethics course

Spring:

· EPI 910 Contemporary Epi - every year · EPI 920* Avance Methos in Epi & Applie Stats - even years

Variable:

*Choose six creits of the following avance biostatistics courses: EPI 855, EPI 920, EPI 950, EPI 952, EPI 953, or an approve avance biostatistics course from an outsie epartment Our faculty strive to prouce convincing evience that will lea to improvements in public health, an to evelop new an innovative statistical an epiemiologic methos for proucing this evience. A few areas of current faculty research interests are liste below. · Bayesian Statistics · Bioinformatics · Causal Inference · Clinical Trials · Cost-Effectiveness Analysis · High-Dimensional Data · Longituinal Data · Missing Data · Reuctive Analytics · Statistical Computing · Statistical Genetics · Survival Analysis 

这个博士项目是为那些打算成为流行病学独立研究人员的学生设计的。 重点是发展和掌握流行病学和生物统计学技能，这是在公共卫生工作中获得最高水平的学术、调查和领导能力所必需的。 学生设计并完成他们自己的研究者发起的研究项目，并准备参加由美国国立卫生研究院(National Institutes of Health)和资助流行病学研究的其他机构资助的研究拨款竞赛。 

学习经验是通过课程和阅读，与督导教师实习，参与一个研究团队，并完成论文研究项目。 

学分 硕士学位以外的51个学分是必需的 

•6学分流行病学课程 

•6学分高级生物统计学课程

 •选修15学分

 •24学位论文学分 非信贷需求 

•博士生需要参加一个为期四个学期的博士期刊俱乐部。

 学生亦须于每学期出席流行病学及生物统计学系列讲座。