Epidemiology

The MPH in Epidemiology is offered with a core curriculum that includes courses in disease surveillance and outbreak investigation, epidemiologic methods, and health survey research. The emphasis is on skills development that will prepare you for careers in government, healthcare, food production systems, academic research centers, or serve as a base for a PhD. 

Choosing the MPH in Epidemiology provides you with skills in epidemiologic fieldwork, as well as content knowledge in disease diagnosis and detection, prophylaxis and vaccinology, therapeutics and antibiotic resistance, prevention of disease spread in hospitals or by vectors, public health policy and emergency responses to disease outbreaks, and biosecurity threats. This specialization will prepare you as frontline professionals in state and local public health, healthcare delivery systems, or academic infectious disease research centers.

Requirements for an MPH in Epidemiology (42 credits) 

Specialization Core Courses (8 credits)

Fall

  • PH 750: Epidemiologic Methods 1 
  • PH 753: Public Health Surveillance 

Spring

  • PH 752: Epidemiologic Methods 2 
  • PH 754: Health Survey Research 
Options

Core courses  and 10 credits of electives

American Indian Public Health Subplan (6 credits)
2022-2023 Epidemiology Track American Indian Public Health Subplan Sample Full-Time Plan of Study
2021-2022 Epidemiology Track American Indian Public Health Subplan Sample Full-Time Plan of Study 

  • PH 772: American Indian Health Equity

  • PH 774: Research and Evaluation in Tribal Communities 

Management of Infectious Diseases Subplan (6 credits)  
2022-2023 Epidemiology - Management of Infectious Diseases Sample Full-Time Plan of Study
2021-2022 Epidemiology - Management of Infectious Diseases Sample Full-Time Plan of Study

  • PH 735: Principles of Infectious Diseases I 
  • PH 736: Principles of Infectious Diseases II

Maternal and Child Health Subplan (6 credits)
2022-2023 Epidemiology Track - Maternal and Child Health Subplan Sample Full-Time Plan of Study

  • PH 781: Foundations in Maternal and Child Health
  • PH 782: Introduction to Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology
  • PH 790: Seminar

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