Advanced Professional MPH in Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology

The Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology track advances your ability to engage in clinical and population-based research with quantitative and mixed methods data skills.

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

• 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)