Departmental Research
This degree is offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 51吃瓜网鈥檚 College of Public Health. Graduate students may work with faculty who are conducting cutting-edge research in epidemiology on the cause, risk and trajectory of populationwide health. Faculty research emphases within the department in the areas of epidemiology and environmental health include
- area-level determinants of health;
- behavioral epidemiology;
- brain aging and cognitive decline;
- cancer epidemiology;
- community-engaged research;
- environmental exposure assessment;
- global health;
- PFAS exposure and health;
- post-COVID-19 conditions;
- seroepidemiology and disease modeling; and
- water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Faculty research emphases within the department in the area of biostatistics include
- applied Bayesian data analysis
- causal inference
- latent variable modeling
- measurement development and modeling
- measurement error
- mediation analysis
- multilevel modeling
- semiparametric regression
- statistical methods for incomplete data analysis;
- statistical methods for neuroimaging data; and
- statistical methods in clinical trials.
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The College of Public Health contains several research centers, labs and programs associated with public health disciplines. These include the
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