MPH: Biostatistics

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

The Biostatistics track builds on the classic Public Health Biostatistics skill and knowledge base and takes advantage of special knowledge of its faculty in the areas of genetics, bioinformatics, network analysis, causal inference, and big data science. Students have the opportunity to learn and apply statistical genetics in the context of complex disease study, high throughout computing used in "big" data science, applications in evidence-based patient-centered outcome studies, and population-based epidemiological studies. Courses include topics and material such as interpretation of personalized and evidence-based medicine in the context of public health basic understanding of genetics and epigenetics general "omic" approaches and concepts as well as classic Biostatistics topics such as Survival and Categorical data analysis.

Joseph J Zilber School of Public Health