心理健康哲学博士-精神病流行病学

精神和行为障碍给公共卫生带来了沉重负担，并且是全世界致残的主要原因之一。精神病流行病学计划的教职员工使用流行病学和生物统计学的工具来了解精神和行为障碍在人，空间和时间上的发生和分布，并调查这些障碍的原因和后果，以便制定更有效的干预策略治疗和预防它们并促进心理健康。教师参与了一系列基于人群的心理和行为障碍研究，涉及从子宫内到老年人的整个生命过程，通常进行前瞻性和面向发展的研究。
The PhD degree is a research-oriented doctoral degree. In the first two years, students take core courses in the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology, in research ethics, and attend weekly department seminars. Students must complete a written comprehensive exam (in January of their second year), a preliminary exam, two presentations and a final dissertation including presentation and defense. Throughout their time in the department, we encourage all doctoral students to participate in at least one research group of the major research programs in the department: Substance Use Epidemiology, Global Mental Health, Mental Health and Aging, Mental Health Services and Policy, Methods, Prevention Research, Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetic Epidemiology, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and Autism and Developmental Disabilities.<br>Mental and behavioral disorders impose a significant burden on public health, and are among the leading causes of disability worldwide. Faculty in the Program of Psychiatric Epidemiology use the tools of epidemiology and biostatistics to understand the occurrence and distribution of mental and behavioral disorders across people, space and time, and to investigate the causes and consequences of these disorders in order to develop more effective intervention strategies to treat and prevent them and to promote mental health. Faculty are involved in a range of population-based studies of mental and behavioral disorders that span the life course from in utero to the elderly, typically with studies that are prospective and developmentally oriented.