Degree Requirements
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School-Wide Core Requirements (22 semester hours)
- IPHS 450 – Foundations and Determinants of Public Health (3 semester hours)
- IPHS 451 – Public Health Policy, Systems and Advocacy (3 semester hours)a
- IPHS 452 – Public Health Planning, Practice, and Evaluation (3 semester hours)
- IPHS 453 – Public Health Management and Leadership (2 semester hours)
- IPHS 454 – Quantitative Methods and Analysis I (3 semester hours)
- IPHS 455 – Quantitative Methods and Analysis II b (3 semester hours)b
- IPHS 456 – Introduction to Research Design for Public Health (1 semester hour)
- IPHS 650 – Applied Practice Experience (3 semester hours)
- IPHS 698 – Integrative Learning Experience (1 semester hour)
a. Students enrolled in the Maternal and Child Health concentration and Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology concentration will take CHSC 543 in lieu of IPHS 451 as more specialized training is required. These courses are part of their concentration core curricula, not the overall MPH core curriculum.
b. Students in the Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology concentrations will take EPID 406 during their first semester, concurrent with IPHS 454, in lieu of IPHS 455. Students in other MPH concentrations may waive out of IPHS 455 and take EPID 406 upon approval of the student’s home division, the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the SPH Office of Academic Affairs.
Required Non-Credit Training
- Title IX Training – Sexual Harassment
- IPHS 421 – SPH Success
- Quantitative Baseline Assessment
- SPH & UIC Policies Module
- Human Subjects Research
- SPH Academic Integrity Tutorial
Divisional Core Requirements (22 semester hours)
- BSTT 401 – Biostatistics II (4 semester hours)
- BSTT 413 – An Intro to Data Analysis with R (2 semester hours)
- BSTT 505 – Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis (2 semester hours)
- BSTT 506 – Design of Clinical Trials (3 semester hours)
- BSTT 537 – Longitudinal Data Analysis (4 semester hours)
- EPID 404 – Intermediate Epidemiologic Methods (4 semester hours)
- EPID 406 – Epidemiological Computing (3 semester hours)
Enrichment Areas and Electives (0 semester hours)
Students may select any graduate-level course to complete the minimum required 46 semester hours. Students are encouraged to choose additional methodology courses in areas such as survey planning and sampling, health data science, or geographical information systems (GIS).
Other Requirements
- Students in Biostatistics are allowed only one grade of C in required courses. A student who receives two Cs in required courses will not be allowed to graduate from the program. A student may retake a course one time and attempt to replace the C with a higher grade.
- Students who plan to conduct research involving human subjects must undergo training and obtain approval of their protocol by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) before beginning the research.