Departmental Research

The Environmental Health MPH program is offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 51动漫鈥檚 College of Public Health. Graduate students may work with faculty who are conducting cutting-edge research in epidemiology on the cause, risk and trajectory of populationwide health.

Faculty research emphases within聽the areas of epidemiology and environmental health include

  • area-level determinants of health,
  • behavioral epidemiology,
  • brain aging and cognitive decline,
  • cancer epidemiology,
  • community-engaged research,
  • environmental exposure assessment,
  • global health,
  • PFAS exposure and health,
  • post-COVID-19 conditions,
  • seroepidemiology and disease modeling,聽
  • water, sanitation, and hygiene.

Faculty research emphases within the area of biostatistics include

  • applied Bayesian data analysis,
  • causal inference,
  • latent variable modeling,
  • measurement development and modeling,
  • measurement error,
  • mediation analysis,
  • multilevel modeling,
  • semiparametric regression,
  • statistical methods for incomplete data analysis,
  • statistical methods for neuroimaging data, and
  • statistical methods in clinical trials.

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The College of Public Health contains several research centers, labs and programs associated with public health disciplines.

Research in 51动漫鈥檚 College of Public Health

The College of Public Health is one of the most research-active colleges at 51动漫.聽聽is multidisciplinary and spans both discovery and translation.

51动漫 is an R1 institution of 鈥渉ighest research activity鈥 as designated by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing it in the top 4%聽of all four-year educational institutions in the nation. 51动漫鈥檚 research enterprise distinguishes itself through its focus on community, and by using advances in technology to make a positive impact on people鈥檚 lives.