Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

This course will engage students in readings, projects, lectures and/or discussions to address current topics of special interest or concerns. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours.

Students will enroll in this course to complete their research for their dissertation.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

This course will engage in reading, projects, lectures and/or discussions to address current topics of special interest or concern in public health. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.

Students will attend colloquium sessions that will supplement the core curriculum with additional application.

This course provides students with the understanding of advanced issues in the design, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiologic studies. The course text and associated readings will focus on study designs and the methodologic approaches to addressing bias, confounding, and error in the design of population-based health research. The development of a systematic approach for evaluating evidence from epidemiologic studies as it relates to demonstrating causality will be emphasized.

Designed as the link between academic work in environmental health and application health practice, and to prepare the student for a leadership role in public health.

This course covers topics relating to applications of biostatistics in public health. It provides a conceptual introduction to statistical methods commonly used in public health practice. Topics include data visualization, summary statistics, statistical testing, estimation, confounding, and an introduction to regression (linear, logistic, proportional hazards).

This course evaluates the use of models of health on related behavior and their applications for intervention in public health problems.