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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.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Required | ||
Foundational courses (6 credits) | ||
PUBH 6002 | Biostatistical Applications for Public Health | |
PUBH 6003 | Principles and Practices of Epidemiology | |
PUBH 6080 | Pathways to Public Health | |
Program-specific courses (8 credits) | ||
PUBH 6245 | Infectious Disease Epidemiology | |
or PUBH 6486 | Global Health Programs and Approaches to the Control of Infectious Diseases | |
PUBH 6247 | Epidemiologic Methods I: Design of Health Studies | |
PUBH 6853 | Use of SAS for Data Management and Analysis | |
Selectives | ||
One course selected from each of the categories below: | ||
Microbiology selective | ||
PUBH 6276 | Public Health Microbiology | |
PUBH 6278 | Public Health Virology | |
BISC 6212 | Virology and Antiviral Immunity | |
MLS 6117 | Advanced Clinical Bacteriology II | |
MLS 6119 | Advanced Parasitology, Mycology, and Virology | |
MLS 6216 | Microbial Pathogenesis | |
Immunology selective | ||
PUBH 6291 | Infection and Immunity | |
MLS 6141 | Advanced Immunology and Serology | |
Genomics selective | ||
PUBH 6861 | Public Health Genomics | |
BIOC 6240 | Next Generation Sequencing | |
BIOC 6241 | Single Cell Genomics Data Analysis | |
MICR 6236 | Fundamentals in Geonomics and Proteomics I | |
Methods selective | ||
PUBH 6252 | Epidemiologic Methods II: Advanced Epidemiologic Methods | |
PUBH 6260 | Applied Epidemiologic Data Analysis | |
PUBH 6275 | Essential Public Health Laboratory Skills | |
PUBH 6860 | Principles of Bioinformatics | |
Infectious disease selective | ||
PUBH 6259 | Epidemiology Surveillance in Public Health | |
PUBH 6468 | Preparation and Response to Epidemics, Pandemics, Mass Health Emergencies, and Disasters | |
PUBH 6484 | Prevention 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 6011 | Environmental and Biological Foundations of Public Health | |
PUBH 6127 | Introduction to Environmental Health Microbiology | |
PUBH 6146 | Microbiomes and Microbial Ecology in Public Health | |
PUBH 6233 | Epidemiologic Principles and Practice of Disease Eradication | |
PUBH 6234 | Epidemiologic Methods in Neglected Tropical Disease Control | |
PUBH 6238 | Molecular Epidemiology | |
PUBH 6239 | Epidemiology of Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases | |
PUBH 6240 | Pediatric HIV/AIDS | |
PUBH 6242 | Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health: Reading the Research | |
PUBH 6243 | Topics in Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health: Reading the Research | |
PUBH 6250 | Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS | |
PUBH 6251 | HIV Prevention Epidemiology and Methods | |
PUBH 6253 | Issues in HIV Care and Treatment | |
PUBH 6255 | Organizational Responses to the Local, National, and Global HIV/AIDS Epidemics | |
PUBH 6262 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | |
PUBH 6263 | Advanced GIS | |
PUBH 6271 | Disaster Epidemiology | |
PUBH 6279 | Next Generation Sequencing Laboratory Skills | |
PUBH 6299 | Topics in Epidemiology (Epidemiology of Sexually Transmitted Infections) * | |
PUBH 6358 | Vaccine Policy | |
PUBH 6386 | Public Health Preparedness Policy | |
PUBH 6455 | Global Vaccinology | |
PUBH 6487 | Emerging Zoonotic Diseases and Global Food Production | |
PUBH 6850 | Introduction to SAS for Public Health Research | |
PUBH 6851 | Introduction to R for Public Health Research | |
PUBH 6852 | Introduction to Python for Public Health Research | |
PUBH 6856 | Advanced SAS for Public Health Research | |
GEOG 6304 | Geographical Information Systems I | |
GEOG 6305 | Geospatial Statistics | |
GEOG 6306 | Geographical Information Systems II | |
GEOG 6309 | GIS for Emergency Management | |
MICR 6292 | Tropical Infectious Diseases | |
MICR 8230 | Molecular and Cellular Immunology | |
Final project | ||
PUBH 6280 | Microbiology and Emerging Infectious Diseases Final Project (2 credits) |
*For PUBH 6299, only the specified topics count toward pre-approved elective courses.