Email: Christian.Tschudi@yale.edu
Internet: http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/summer/course_bio_para.html

The M.S. in EPH is offered in two specialty areas: Biostatistics and Chronic Disease Epidemiology. The Biostatistics track is a two-year program. The Chronic Disease Epidemiology track is a one-year program.
The M.S. in EPH degree program puts great emphasis on mastering the skills in individual specialty areas within public health. This degree program is designed to train individuals for work in high demand fields such as biotechnology and medical research in the pharmaceutical industry.
Biostatistics Track (BIS): Candidates for this M.S. in EPH must complete the following courses:

• Fundamentals of Clinical Trials
• Applied Regression Analysis
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Topics in Statistical Epidemiology
• Theory of Survival Analysis and its Applications
• Probability Theory
• Theory of Statistics
• Statistical Inference
• Linear Models

Students must also take two electives in Biostatistics and Statistics and one elective in Epidemiology and Public Health (not in Biostatistics). In the second year of this M.S. in EPH program, the student is required to prepare a Master’s thesis. The thesis is written under the supervision of a Biostatistics faculty member. Upon completion of the thesis, the student will make an oral presentation of the results.

Chronic Disease Epidemiology Track (CDE): The CDE track consists of required and elective course work and the satisfactory completion of the capstone experience. A total of 10 courses are required. It is expected that this program will be completed during a single academic year. Students with an M.P.H. or other related degrees may be eligible to substitute advanced courses for some of the required courses. Written permission of the Director of Graduate Studies is required prior to enrolling in substitute courses.
The following courses are required:

• Principles of Epidemiology I
• Applied Regression Analysis
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Principles of Epidemiology II
• Measurement Issues in Chronic Disease Epidemiology
• Topics in Statistical Epidemiology
• Developing a Research Protocol

Three electives are required and can be taken from the following list of courses: Health and Aging; Nutrition and Chronic Disease; Introduction to Evidence Based Health Care; Statistical Methods in Human Genetics; Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Disease; GIS Applications in Epidemiology and Public Health; Fundamentals of Clinical Trials; Epidemiology of Cancer; Introduction to Pharmacoepidemiology; Topics in Genetic Epidemiology; Topics in Perinatal Epidemiology; Vascular Epidemiology; Theory of Survival Analysis and its Applications
Advanced Topics and Case Studies in Multicenter Clinical Trials.

Applicants must have taken the GRE General Test within the last five years. Students whose native language is not English must take the TOEFL examination.

Chronic Disease Epidemiology Track: The candidate should have a basic understanding of quantitative science and statistics. Typically, we expect candidates with strong science backgrounds to apply who have demonstrated competency in statistical analysis and logical thinking. Applicants from rigorous programs in the biological or social sciences will be given preference. Persons already holding science Ph.D.s, candidates from the pharmaceutical industry or medical practitioners are also likely degree applicants. At a minimum, applicants should have taken one year of coursework in statistics or equivalent prior to enrolling in the Chronic Disease Epidemiology program track.

General Requirements: All applicants must submit the results of their Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). For information regarding GRE registration and test administration, please visit the Educational Testing Service (ETS) website. The institution code for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is 3987.
Foreign nationals whose undergraduate, graduate or professional degrees were obtained from a country where English is not the primary language of instruction must also submit an official test score for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) in addition to the above. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences institution code for ETS is 3987.

$31,150
Total Estimated Cost of Attendance: $49,544

The Global Health Division exposes students to international public health practice by bringing leading experts in health from around the world to campus throughout the year to participate in formal and informal teaching, discussion and research. Students are strongly encouraged to participate in these activities.

$31,150
Total Estimated Cost of Attendance: $49,544

The goal of the program in the division of Health Policy and Administration (HPA) is to develop outstanding decision makers, critical thinkers, and future leaders in both the public and private sectors of the health system. Graduates are employed in a variety of health care delivery settings (e.g., hospitals, managed care organizations, public health departments, consulting and pharmaceutical companies, as well as federal, state, and local government agencies).

Students enrolled in the Masters program within HPA choose one of two tracks:

• Health Management
• Health Policy

Teaching objectives of the division include:

• Provide students with a set of skills and principles essential for practice in health policy, health management, and public health.
• Enhance students' abilities to evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of health policies and programs, using rigorous research techniques and analytical reasoning.
• Provide opportunities for students to apply their newly developed skills and reasoning abilities to real-life health policy and health management problems, through community project experiences, the summer internship, and the thesis.

Divisional Requirements for the M.P.H Degree in Health Policy: Government and Health Policy; Policy Analysis and Health Politics; Methods in Health Services Research; Microeconomics for Health Care Professionals; Health Care Information and Quality Management; Capstone Course in Health Policy

Health Management: The Health Management Program (HMP) is a two-year program within the Division of Health Policy and Administration leading to an M.P.H. degree. The HMP curriculum is unique in that it combines courses at the Yale School of Management with courses at the School of Public Health. The mission of the Health Management Program is to educate outstanding decision makers who can influence and direct the delivery of health care through their leadership of organizations committed to enhancing the quality, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of heath care services. Click here

$31,150
Total Estimated Cost of Attendance: $49,544

In consultation with the faculty advisor, the student chooses among doctoral-level courses offered by the department as well as among courses offered by the medical school or by other Yale professional or graduate schools. Students often take an advanced seminar in their specialty area and present their work in this collegial forum. All candidates must become proficient in statistical analysis, research methods, and the application of epidemiology to the field in which they have special interest.
Upon completion of the M.P.H. program, students in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Social and Behavioral Sciences should be able to

• Evaluate the scientific merit and feasibility of epidemiologic study designs
• Describe the epidemiology of common chronic diseases with more in-depth knowledge of a specialty area
• Synthesize information from a variety of epidemiologic and related studies
• Design and carry out epidemiologic studies, with minimal supervision
• Analyze data from epidemiologic studies at an intermediate level
• Write up and present their own research to colleagues
• Describe basic pathophysiologic and/or psychopathologic mechanisms
• Identify and use routinely collected data on disease occurrence
• Review, critique and evaluate epidemiologic evidence

$31,150
Total Estimated Cost of Attendance: $49,544

Email: ysph.admissions@yale.edu
For further details please visit our web page at http://info.med.yale.edu/eph/cde/phd.html

Unite for Sight's conference is for all professionals and students involved in medicine, health education, health promotion, global health and development, and international service. Its purpose is to provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas about best practices to achieve global goals.

Abstract Categories:

1. International Medicine and International Health
2. Public Health
3. Eye Care
4. Scientific and Medical Research
5. Advocacy and Health Policy
6. Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, social entrepreneurship, eye care, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, bioethics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, and public service.

Email: JStaple@uniteforsight.org
Internet: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

The Division of Biostatistics trains students to develop and apply statistical principles and methods to problems in health sciences, medicine, and biology. Biostatistics is one of the skills necessary for the development and practice of public health – the methods of this discipline are appropriate for quantifying the possible effects of risk factors and health interventions on individuals and groups. A graduate of the Biostatistics M.P.H. program is able to specify and produce valid study designs, perform database management and produce working tables and statistical summaries, analyze data in terms of stated hypotheses, generate new hypotheses, and properly interpret study results.

M.P.H. Core Curriculum

• Introduction to Statistical Thinking I & II
• Principles of Epidemiology I

One of the following three

• Applied Risk Assessment
• Fundamentals of Environmental Health
• Introduction to Toxicology

One of the following two

• Social and Behavioral Influences on Health
• Psychosocial Epidemiology

One of the following two

• Health Policy and Health Systems
• Health Care Finance and Delivery

$31,150
Total Estimated Cost of Attendance: $49,544

Jacqui R. Comshaw, Director of Admissions
Tel: +1 (0) 203 785 28 44
Fax: +1 (09 203 785 48 45
Email: ysph.admissions@yale.edu
Internet: http://publichealth.yale.edu/bis/education.html

In their daily lives individuals are exposed to a wide range of biological, chemical and physical environmental stressors. In the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, our focus is to recognize and assess the impact of environmental health hazards on people in the community and workplace.
Students in Environmental Health Sciences Division (EHS) can choose tracks in environmental epidemiology, environmental policy, or risk assessment. Within these tracks there is flexibility for students to design, with their advisor, a program to meet individual needs. Students may take advantage of the wide variety of courses relevant to environmental health offered by the Division, the school, and throughout the University, particularly those in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
The focus of EHS is to produce graduates who are able to identify environmental stressors, evaluate their hazard potential, assess human exposures to them, estimate their potential impact on human health, and establish the associated risk level for the population. Specifically, graduates obtain the skills to:

• Understand the basic principles of how contaminants are introduced into the air, water, soil, and food, and are then transported through the environment
• Recognize the chemical, physical, and biological environmental stressors and evaluate their potential hazard to human health and comfort in the working, residential and community environments
• Recognize the process by which policies are developed to regulate environmental hazards
• Understand the basic principles used to manage risks associated with exposures to environmental hazards

$31,150
Total Estimated Cost of Attendance: $49,544

Jacqui R. Comshaw, Director of Admissions
Tel: +1 (0) 203 785 28 44
Fax: +1 (09 203 785 48 45
Email: ysph.admissions@yale.edu
Internet: http://publichealth.yale.edu/ehs/education.html