Epidemiology

Certificate Program

Offered in collaboration with Tufts' School of Medicine, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, this interdisciplinary program is designed to help students understand, integrate, and apply epidemiologic methods and research.

The program is especially appropriate for clinicians, professionals in public health and human service agencies, lawyers, industrial hygienists, pharmaceutical or biotechnology professionals, environmental engineers or scientists, and individuals involved in citizen activist groups focusing on human health issues. It's also useful for individuals who are considering a career change to public health but are not yet ready to commit to a full master's program. Open to individuals with a bachelor's degree, the program involves the completion of five courses.

Program of Study

The certificate requires five courses:

Two required foundation courses:
- CEE 154/NUTR 154 Principles of Epidemiology
- CEE 164 Epidemiologic Methods
One course in biostatistics (may be exempted by prior coursework):
- BIO 132 Biostatistics
- CEE 102 Probability and Statistics in Engineering
- MPH 205 Principles of Biostatistics
- MPH 259 Fundamentals of Biostatistics
Two elective courses in your area of interest or expertise. Some examples include:
- MPH 204 Occupational and Environmental Health
- MPH 209 Applications in Epidemiology
- MPH 220 Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- MPH 222 Survey Research Methods and Data Management
- MPH 224 Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- MPH 226 Cancer Epidemiology
- MPH 240 Environmental Epidemiology
- UEP 281 Chemicals, Health and the Environment
- CEE 137 Public Health
- CEE 158 Occupational and Environmental Health
- CEE 167 Environmental Toxicology
- CEE 173 Health Effects and Risk Assessment
- NUTR 213B Nutritional Epidemiology
- NUTR 262 Design of Epidemiologic Studies for Nutritional Research
An optional internship is available to students who lack professional experience in the use of epidemiology. The internship would count as one elective and be undertaken after all other coursework is completed.
This certificate is offered in collaboration with the School of Engineering, School of Medicine, and the School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Tuition:

Certificate students pay a course rate for each required certificate course of $2,930 per course (2008-2009).

For Application Forms for the certificate program.

For course information, contact:
Certificate Faculty Adviser:
Mark A. Woodin 617-627-3640

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