Overview
The Johns Hopkins Department of Biostatistics MHS program is intended for outstanding individuals with prior professional experience or a professional degree (ie, PhD or MD) seeking a one-year intensive course of study in biostatistical theory and methods. It is also open to students concurrently enrolled in a doctoral program at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. MHS graduates:
- Design research studies of human health and disease.
- Design and implement data management systems, pipelines and tools.
- Design and implement tabular and graphical displays of quantitative information.
- Draw inferences from quantitative data.
- Use statistical reasoning and theory to deal effectively with non-standard statistical problems.

