Students will complete a minimum of 33 credit hours of coursework, including 21 hours of required program, a minimum of 12 hours of electives, and demonstration of public health foundations.
The demonstration of the public health foundation is achieved either through completion of a previous public health degree (BPH or MPH) or completion of a Canvas Course covering the foundational knowledge. Students are required to demonstrate knowledge of the public health foundations prior to graduation.
Demonstrate the ability to construct written or oral communication which accurately presents the results and interpretations of a statistical analysis in an easily comprehendible manner to a collaborating health scientist or other vested audience.
Develop a statistical analysis plan which implements biostatistical methodology to address a biomedical research question while remaining aware of the limitations of the methodology.
Apply concepts from the intersection between biostatistics and epidemiology as it applies to the analysis of data.
Develop code for statistical software to wrangle and analyze data sets using appropriate biostatistical methods.
CPH 712 Advanced Epidemiology (3 hours)
BST 635 Databases and SAS programming (3 hours)
BST 675 Simulation Based Inference for Health Data Science (3 hours)
BST 681 Linear Regression (3 hours)
BST 682 Generalized Linear Models (3 hours)
BST 693 Statistical Practice in Public Health (3 hours)
BST 699 Advanced Biostatics Practice (3 hours)
BST 535 Introduction to R programming (3 hours)
BST 631 Design and Analysis of Health Surveys (3 hours)
BST 636 Analytic Methods for Mining Healthcare Data (3 hours)
BST 655 Introduction to Statistical Genetics (3 hours)
BST 661 Survival Analysis (3 hours)
BST 662 Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis (3 hours)
BST 663 Analysis of Categorical Data (3 hours)
BST 664 Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials (3 hours)
BST 676 Theory for Biostatistics Methods (3 hours)
BST 701 Bayesian Modeling in Biostatistics (3 hours)
EPI 717 Introduction to Causal Inference (3 hours)
| Year 1 Fall | Year 1 Spring | Year 2 Fall | Year 2 Spring |
|---|---|---|---|
| BST 675 | BST 635 | BST 693 | BST 699 |
| BST 681 | BST 682 | Elective | Elective |
| Elective (BST 535 Suggested) | CPH 712 | Elective |
| Year 1 Fall | Year 1 Spring | Year 2 Fall | Year 2 Spring | Year 3 Fall | Year 3 Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BST 681 | BST 635 | BST 675 | BST 682 | BST 693 | BST 699 |
| Elective (BST 535) | Elective or CPH 712 | Elective | Elective or CPH 712 | Elective |
College of Public Health
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Lexington, KY 40536
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