公共卫生硕士-流行病学

公共卫生硕士学位是一个跨学科的专业学位课程，旨在提供与公共卫生实践相关的领域的实践培训。重点包括流行病学，生物统计学，环境卫生，职业安全与卫生，卫生政策与管理，健康促进和社区卫生科学。流行病学的目标是确定人群健康和疾病的模式和决定因素，可用于确定适当的健康促进和预防措施。学生可以与其他部门的同事合作，将他们的流行病学和生物统计学技能应用到各个跨学科领域。各种环境中都有实用的实习机会，使学生有机会运用自己的技能。学生离开该计划时会广泛接触公共卫生问题。他们还将开发必要的技能，以在改善人口健康，特别是在农村地
Our expanding program consists of several faculty members. Additional participating faculty members belong to interdepartmental programs, such as Toxicology, Food Science & Technology, Genetics, Reproduction, and Neuroscience. Faculty and graduate students in the program also are conducting research and receiving training that spans the spectrum of acute and chronic diseases of importance to domestic and wild animal and human populations. Graduate Program The graduate program in Epidemiology & Public Health offers an MS in epidemiology (thesis option) and a departmental PhD (with an emphasis in epidemiology), which prepares students for leadership roles in epidemiological study design, evaluation, and professional research, in both animal and human populations. Completion of a dissertation is required for the PhD degree through this program. In addition, a thesis or non-thesis MS degree in Veterinary Public Health is offered with the approval of a program faculty advisor.