Advanced Professional MPH in Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology

The Advanced Professional MPH degree requires a total of 16 course units. The Advanced Professional MPH in Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology requires the student to complete or acquire an exemption from the following courses. If a course is waived, a substitute course must be identified.

• BIS 515 Accelerated Biostatistics - 2 units
• SBS 505 Accelerated Social Foundations of Health - 1 unit
• CDE 515 Accelerated Epidemiology - 1 unit
• EPH 510 Health Policy and Health Care Systems - 1 unit
• EPH 513 Major Health Threats - 1 unit

One of the following (public health practice requirement):

• EPH 500 Public Health Practicum - 1 unit
• HPM 555 Health Policy or Health Care Management Practicum - 1 unit
• HPM 556 Advanced Health Policy Practicum - 1 unit
• EPH 555 Clinic in Climate Justice, Climate Policy, Law, and Public Health - 1 unit
• EMD/SBS 584 Advanced Global Health Justice Practicum: Fieldwork - 1 unit
• EMD/SBS 588 Health Justice Practicum - 1 unit

Required Courses (6 Course Units)

• CDE 534 Applied Analytic Methods in Epidemiology - 1 unit

Two of the following (additional data analysis-related courses may be added to the list with advisor approval):

• BIS 621 or BIS 623 Regression Models for Public Health or Advanced Regression Analysis - 1 unit
• BIS 628 Longitudinal and Multilevel Data Analysis - 1 unit
• BIS 630 Applied Survival Analysis - 1 unit
• S&DS 563 Multivariate Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences - 1 unit
• BIS 540 Fundamentals of Clinical Trials
• EHS 568 Introduction to GIS for Public Health
• BIS 560 Introduction to Health Informatics
• BIS 633 Population and Public Health Informatics
• ENAS 523 Data and Clinical Decision-Making
• S&DS 530/ENV 757 Data Exploration and Analysis
• PLSC 349 Visualization of Political and Social Data
• EHS 531 Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Research
• EMD 553 Transmission Dynamic Models for Understanding Infectious Diseases
• AMTH 361 Data Analysis
• EHS 569 Advanced GIS Workshop

Two additional biostatistics and/or epidemiology-related courses - 2 units

One of the following capstone courses:

• SBS 574 Developing a Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Intervention - 1 unit
• CDE 617 Developing a Research Proposal - 1 unit
• EPH 608 Frontiers of Public Health - 1 unit
• HPM 597 Capstone Course in Health Policy - 1 unit
• HPM 575 Evaluation of Global Health Policies and Programs - 1 unit
• EPH 608 - Frontiers of Public Health - 1 unit

Elective Courses (3 Course Units)

When you graduate from YSPH, you have options! Our curriculum is closely mapped to the core and departmental competencies so that you will have a foundation in the skills you need for a successful career in public health. See our Career Management Center pages to see where our alumni live and work after completing their MPH studies.

The core curriculum of the MPH program focuses on competencies in evidence-based approaches to public health (1–4), public health and health care systems (5–6), planning and management to promote health (7–11), policy in public health (12–15), leadership (16–17), communication (18–20), interprofessional practice (21), and systems thinking (22).

Upon completing the core curriculum, the student will be able to:

1. Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.
2. Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context.
3. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software, as appropriate.
4. Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice.
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5. Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings.
6. Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.
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7. Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health.
8. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs.
9. Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention.
10. Explain the basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.
11. Select methods to evaluate public health programs.
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12. Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.
13. Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.
14. Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.
15. Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity.
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16. Apply principles of leadership, governance, and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration, and guiding decision-making.
17. Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges.
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18. Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors.
19. Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation.
20. Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.
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21. Perform effectively on interprofessional teams.
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22. Apply systems-thinking tools to a public health issue.

Upon receiving an MPH degree in the Advanced Professional MPH Program, with a concentration in Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology, the student will be able to:

• Create and manipulate data sets and variables to evaluate epidemiologic associations
• Conduct and interpret a multivariable linear regression analysis to evaluate epidemiologic associations
• Conduct and interpret a multivariable logistic regression analysis to evaluate epidemiologic associations
• Conduct and interpret a multivariable survival analysis to evaluate epidemiologic associations
• Conduct and interpret a multivariable ordinal logistic regression analysis to evaluate epidemiologic associations