The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Epidemiology offered by the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences is a research-intensive program that emphasizes stimulating and practical learning opportunities. The program's objective is to equip students with skills in critical thinking, literature review, and academic writing to pursue professional opportunities in academia or industry.
The program may also be taken as one of the following options:
Global Health option: focuses topics of global health relevance where students incorporate these into their core coursework and thesis research.
Pharmacoepidemiology option: provides in-depth training for students on pharmacoepidemiologic methods and the application of these methods to study the population effects (benefits and harm) of pharmaceutical products.
Population Dynamics option: focuses on training in demographic methods (including life table analyses) and critical population dynamic issues such as population health, migration, aging, family dynamics, and labour markets.
Keywords: population health, prevention, health policy, health inequalities, disease surveillance.
