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The following requirements must be fulfilled: 36 credits, including 6 credits in foundational courses, 8 credits in program-specific courses, 11 to 14 credits of selective courses, 6 to 9 credits of elective courses, and 2 credits in a final project.

Required
Foundational courses (6 credits)
PUBH 6002Biostatistical Applications for Public Health
PUBH 6003Principles and Practices of Epidemiology
PUBH 6080Pathways to Public Health
Program-specific courses (8 credits)
PUBH 6245Infectious Disease Epidemiology
or PUBH 6486 Global Health Programs and Approaches to the Control of Infectious Diseases
PUBH 6247Epidemiologic Methods I: Design of Health Studies
PUBH 6853Use of SAS for Data Management and Analysis
Selectives
One course selected from each of the categories below:
Microbiology selective
PUBH 6276Public Health Microbiology
PUBH 6278Public Health Virology
BISC 6212Virology and Antiviral Immunity
MLS 6117Advanced Clinical Bacteriology II
MLS 6119Advanced Parasitology, Mycology, and Virology
MLS 6216Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology selective
PUBH 6291Infection and Immunity
MLS 6141Advanced Immunology and Serology
Genomics selective
PUBH 6861Public Health Genomics
BIOC 6240Next Generation Sequencing
BIOC 6241Single Cell Genomics Data Analysis
MICR 6236Fundamentals in Geonomics and Proteomics I
Methods selective
PUBH 6252Epidemiologic Methods II: Advanced Epidemiologic Methods
PUBH 6260Applied Epidemiologic Data Analysis
PUBH 6275Essential Public Health Laboratory Skills
PUBH 6860Principles of Bioinformatics
Infectious disease selective
PUBH 6259Epidemiology Surveillance in Public Health
PUBH 6468Preparation and Response to Epidemics, Pandemics, Mass Health Emergencies, and Disasters
PUBH 6484Prevention and Control of Vector Borne Diseases
Electives
6 to 9 credits in elective courses. See preapproved list below. Appropriate alternative courses not listed here can be approved in advance by petition to the advisor. Preapproved courses are subject to change and not all courses are offered each academic year. Courses not used as selectives can be used as electives.
PUBH 6011Environmental and Biological Foundations of Public Health
PUBH 6127Introduction to Environmental Health Microbiology
PUBH 6146Microbiomes and Microbial Ecology in Public Health
PUBH 6233Epidemiologic Principles and Practice of Disease Eradication
PUBH 6234Epidemiologic Methods in Neglected Tropical Disease Control
PUBH 6238Molecular Epidemiology
PUBH 6239Epidemiology of Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases
PUBH 6240Pediatric HIV/AIDS
PUBH 6242Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health: Reading the Research
PUBH 6243Topics in Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health: Reading the Research
PUBH 6250Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
PUBH 6251HIV Prevention Epidemiology and Methods
PUBH 6253Issues in HIV Care and Treatment
PUBH 6255Organizational Responses to the Local, National, and Global HIV/AIDS Epidemics
PUBH 6262Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
PUBH 6263Advanced GIS
PUBH 6271Disaster Epidemiology
PUBH 6279Next Generation Sequencing Laboratory Skills
PUBH 6299Topics in Epidemiology (Epidemiology of Sexually Transmitted Infections) *
PUBH 6358Vaccine Policy
PUBH 6386Public Health Preparedness Policy
PUBH 6455Global Vaccinology
PUBH 6487Emerging Zoonotic Diseases and Global Food Production
PUBH 6850Introduction to SAS for Public Health Research
PUBH 6851Introduction to R for Public Health Research
PUBH 6852Introduction to Python for Public Health Research
PUBH 6856Advanced SAS for Public Health Research
GEOG 6304Geographical Information Systems I
GEOG 6305Geospatial Statistics
GEOG 6306Geographical Information Systems II
GEOG 6309GIS for Emergency Management
MICR 6292Tropical Infectious Diseases
MICR 8230Molecular and Cellular Immunology
Final project
PUBH 6280Microbiology and Emerging Infectious Diseases Final Project (2 credits)

*For PUBH 6299, only the specified topics count toward pre-approved elective courses.