Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health - Epidemiology

Kent State University

The Ph.D. degree in Public Health bridges public safety and health career pathways to address a nationwide shortage of public health workers.The Epidemiology concentration prepares students to examine the distribution and determinants of diseases in populations. Graduates are able to apply quantitative and qualitative methods to examine critical and/or emerging health issues, gain advanced ability to conduct large studies and analyze data sets in order to project health trends in populations of interest. Students in this concentration benefit from active faculty research agendas in biopreparedness, public health surveillance systems, chronic disease, cancer and infectious disease epidemiology.

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