Purdue University

EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH GRADUATE FACULTY

A.M. Beck, ScD, Dorothy N. McAllister Professor of Animal Ecology

L.T. Glickman, VMD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology

A.J. Johnson, DVM, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

G.E. Moore, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACVPM and ACVIM, Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

H. Ochoa-Acuña, DVM, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Epidemiology

E.A. Raizman, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Large Animal Epidemiology
 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PhD DEGREE IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

Course Work

Required Courses for the PhD Degree in Comparative Epidemiology within the Section of Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Comparative Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University

Required Courses in Comparative Pathobiology Department

CPB 85400          Principles of Epidemiology (1credit)

CPB 56400          Ecological Health and Wildlife Diseases, (2 credits)

CPB 86900          Veterinary Public Health and Zoonoses (2 credits)

CPB 61800          Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research (2 credits)

CPB 61900          Design, Conduct, and Analysis of Clinical Trials (2 credits)

CPB 62300          Microcomputer Applications in Population and Biomedical Research 

    (3 credits)

CPB 680A           Risk Assessment Models and Applications (3 credits)

CPB 62500          Clinical Biostatistics      (2 credits)

CPB 69500          Seminar in Epidemiology (1 credit every semester)

CPB 69700          Departmental Research Seminar (0 or 1 credit every semester)

Required Courses in Other Departments

STAT 50300        Statistical Methods for Biology (3 credits)

STAT 51200        Applied Regression Analysis (3 ccredits)

STAT 52400        Applied Multivariate Analysis (3 credits)

Recommended Courses in Other Departments

F&N 59000       Nutritional Epidemiology (3 credits)

HSCI 54700      Environmental Epidemiology (2 credits)

HSCI 59000      Public Health Law and Policy (3 credits)

All students will be required to present evidence of course work in the following areas.  Deficiencies must be made up early in the student's academic program.

Biology

Biochemistry

Pathogenesis of Disease

Cell Biology

Physiology

Biology of Cancer

Medical Microbiology

The courses listed in this section represent the minimum requirements for all candidates for the Ph.D. degree. Additional courses may be required by the student's graduate committee.

Preliminary Examination

After completion of required course work and before submission of the research proposal, students will be expected to demonstrate broad competence in epidemiology as determined by a preliminary examination. Preliminary examinations will be given once each year as needed and will consist of three parts:
 

The written questions for both exams will be composed and graded by the members of the epidemiology and public health section.  The oral exam will be presented by the student's graduate committee.  The preliminary examination described here represents "core material" in which all students with an epidemiology concentration must demonstrate competence.  The student's graduate committee still has the responsibility for administering the preliminary examination and additional questions from committee members should be expected by the student.