Epidemiological case mapping is a powerful tool that helps visualize the spread of diseases and identify patterns critical for public health decision-making. By learning this skill, students can play a vital role in tackling real-world health challenges and preventing future outbreaks.
Studying, understanding, and preventing disease equips students with the knowledge to make a real difference in improving community health and global well-being. It also opens doors to exciting careers at the intersection of science, service, and innovation.
Partnering with the community to prevent diseases and outbreaks empowers students to apply their knowledge in real-world settings and build trust through meaningful public health outreach. It also strengthens community resilience while giving students hands-on experience that makes their learning impactful and relevant.
If you have a passion for understanding and identifying factors associated with disease and how to prevent disease, consider applying to the MPH concentration in Epidemiology. The epidemiology concentration will empower you for success in various roles within public health agencies, academic research institutions, healthcare organizations, and local, state, and federal government.
As an Epidemiology concentrator, you’ll learn from a curriculum that blends theoretical foundations of the methods of the discipline with current scientific content from sub-specialties in the field including cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, and occupational and environmental epidemiology. There’s a strong emphasis on the development of the core methodologic and analytic skills for understanding and practicing the discipline to understand disease patterns, distributions, and determinants. Through a practicum experience, you’ll have the opportunity to apply skills learned in the classroom to real-world public health issues.
Guided by a faculty advisory committee, the capstone project will integrate your knowledge and skills into real world project that will demonstrate your competence and understanding of the application of the epidemiologic approach. Enhancing your critical thinking and research skills through study of biostatistics, environmental health practices, models of health behavior, and public health leadership are foundational to having a well-rounded public health education. In addition, you’ll learn broader public health principles and practices which will enhance your ability to work within multidisciplinary teams and appreciate the complexity of evolving public health challenges and current approaches to addressing them.
Analyze the basic principles of disease transmission, prevention, and control by applying them to infectious diseases of public health importance.
Evaluate the factors that increase or decrease the risk of chronic diseases and analyze the methods by which these factors can be modified.
Design an observational or experimental study to evaluate the association between an exposure and an outcome, and identify potential sources of confounding, bias, and effect measure modification.
Formulate and implement multivariable analytic approaches that adjust for confounders and effect measure modifiers and generate appropriate conclusions.
Evaluate distributions of disease in terms of geography, population.
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