Degree Requirements
PhD Student Handbook
School-Wide Requirements (32 - 46 semester hours) Heading link
- BSTT 400 – Biostatistics I
- BSTT 401 – Biostatistics II (4 semester hours)*
- EPID 403 – Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods (4 semester hours)*
- IPHS 520 – Foundations of Public Health (3 semester hours)*
- IPHS 599 – PhD Dissertation Research (minimum 32 semester hours)
- EOHS 455 – Environmental and Occupational Toxicology (3 semester hours)
- EOHS / HPA 565 – Datamining Applications in Public Health (3 semester hours)
- Credit from previous master’s degree in public health or related area (32 semester hours)
* If not previously taken at the masters level.
Required Non-Credit Training Heading link
Cancer Epidemiology Core (18 semester hours) Heading link
- EPID 515 – Survey of Cancer Epidemiology (3 semester hours)
- EPID 516 – Advanced Cancer Epidemiology (2 semester hours)
- EPID 520 – Genetics in Epidemiology (2 semester hours)
- EPID 550 – Special Topics: Surveillance Epidemiology (3 semester hours)
- EPID 554 – Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology (2 semester hours)
- EPID 594 – Special Topics: Social Epidemiology (3 semester hours)
Select one of the following courses:
- CHSC 514 – Nutritional Epidemiology (3 semester hours)
- HN 594 – Special Topics in Human Nutrition (3 semester hours)
With permission of the division, students may substitute HN 532 – Evaluation of Nutritional Status (3 semester hours) for HN 594 and submit a waiver request to apply the credit.
Electives (minimum 16 semester hours) Heading link
- Students must take a minimum of 16 credits of electives.
- Students must take at least one biological science class (4 semester hours) relevant to student’s research area is required if student has no prior biological sciences background.