Public Health Modeling Concentration

The uniqueness of Yale’s Public Health Modeling Concentration is that it is available to all Master of Public Health students. Because we believe that modeling offers a useful lens through which to understand and improve the public health, we encourage our students to broaden their public health education in various departments with the perspectives and experiences the Public Health Modeling Concentration offers. Students who complete this concentration will be well prepared to take positions in a variety of organizations—public and private, local, national, and international—dedicated to understanding and shaping the complex forces that drive population health. MPH students in our traditional two–year program may complete this concentration while they satisfy the requirements of their respective departments or programs.

For Students who Expect to Graduate in 2023

Students enrolled in the YSPH Public Health Modeling Concentration must fulfill the requirements of their respective departments or programs. In addition, the Public Health Modeling Concentration requires the student to complete:

Public Health Modeling Concentration Course Requirements (4 course units)

Students must complete at least one of the following introductory courses:

EMD 553 Transmission Dynamic Models for Understanding Infectious Diseases - 1 unit
HPM 570 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Decision Making - 1 unit

Students must complete at least one of the following intermediate courses:

HPM 573 Advanced Topics in Modeling Health Care Decisions - 1 unit
BIS 534 Stochastic models and inference for the biomedical and social sciences (*This course not offered Fall 2019.) - 1 unit
EMD 538 Quantitative Methods for Infectious Disease Epidemiology - 1 unit

Students must complete a total of at least three of the five courses listed above.

Students must complete the following two course requirements:

EPH 520 Summer Internship (a substantive modeling component is required) - 0 units
EPH 580 and 581 Seminar for Modeling in Public Health (two semesters) - 0 units

Students must complete one additional elective course chosen from the list of pre-approved elective courses.

Pre-Approved Elective Courses for the Public Health Modeling Concentration

Disease & Ecology Modeling

EMD 531b Genomic Epidemiology
* EMD 538a Quantitative Methods In Infectious Disease Epidemiology
ENV 740 Dynamics: Ecological Systems
CDE 619a Advanced Epidemiologic Research Methods
E&EB 678 Mathematical Models & Quantitative Methods in Evolution & Ecology

Statistics

S&DS 238/538a Probability And Statistics
S&DS 563 Multivariate Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
ENV 758 Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences
S&DS 251/551 Stochastic Processes (Wu)
S&DS 565 Applied Data Mining and Machine Learning
* BIS 557a Computational Statistics
BIS 568 Applied Machine Learning in Healthcare
EHS 566a / CDE 566a, Causal Inference Methods in Public Health Research
ENV 781 / S&DS 674 Applied Spatial Statistics

Policy Modeling/Management

* HPM 573b Advanced Topics in Modeling Health Care Decisions
* HPM/MGT 611a Policy Modeling
PLSC 503b Quantitative Methods II: Foundations of Statistical Inference
PLSC 504a Advanced Quantitative Methods
MGT 879b Healthcare Operations
ECON 675a Models of Operations Research and Management
CDE 650a Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine and Health Care
EMD/HPM 580 Reforming Health Systems
EMD 582b/GLBL 716b/EP&E 314 Political Epidemiology

Social Networks

SOCY 625a Analysis of Social Structure
SOCY 647b Social Processes

Non-methods courses with modeling labs

EMD 539b Introduction to Public Health Surveillance

* This course may be used to satisfy the elective requirement by students who do not use it to satisfy the intermediate course requirement.

**Other courses with a substantial modeling component may be substituted as an elective with the approval of the modeling concentration director(s).

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