Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health — Epidemiology

The doctoral program in Public Health (Epidemiology) was developed as a joint program in 1990, between the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University (SDSU). Students in the program complete course work and conduct research at both institutions. Faculty from each campus serve on advisory and dissertation committees, providing students with extensive exposure to experts whose research interests represent the interdisciplinary nature of modern public health.

Typical areas of emphasis include infectious disease epidemiology, chronic disease epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, behavioral epidemiology, community-based trials, physical activity and health, exercise and health, and nutrition and health. In addition, San Diego is ideally located in a large and ethnically-diverse metropolitan center bordering Mexico and the Pacific Rim, enabling students to carry out population-based multicultural and multinational studies of health problems.

For more information see our web site: http://epidemiology.ucsd.edu/teaching.html .