Epidemiology
The MPH in Epidemiology is offered with a core curriculum that includes courses in disease surveillance and outbreak investigation, epidemiologic methods, and health survey research. The emphasis is on skills development that will prepare you for careers in government, healthcare, food production systems, academic research centers, or serve as a base for a PhD.
View the MPH-Epidemiology curriculum on the NDSU Catalog.
Choosing the MPH in Epidemiology provides you with skills in epidemiologic fieldwork, as well as content knowledge in disease diagnosis and detection, prophylaxis and vaccinology, therapeutics and antibiotic resistance, prevention of disease spread in hospitals or by vectors, public health policy and emergency responses to disease outbreaks, and biosecurity threats. This specialization will prepare you as frontline professionals in state and local public health, healthcare delivery systems, or academic infectious disease research centers.
Additional Subplan Options
Students have the option to choose an additional subplan to count toward elective credits. Subplan curriculum can be found on the NDSU Catalog.
- General Public Health
- Health Promotion
- Management of Infectious Diseases
- Maternal and Child Health
Epidemiology Faculty
- Akshaya Bhagavathula, PhD, Associate Professor
- Bong-Jin Choi, PhD MA, Assistant Professor
- Pamela Jo Johnson, MPH, PhD, FACE, Chair/Professor
- Tracy Miller, PhD, MPH, Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Tracie Newman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Practice
- Grace Njau, PhD, MPH, Adjunct Assistant Professor