Required Courses

EPID 651 Bioethics, Regulations, Repercussions in Research Introduction and applications of clinical research principles in bioethics; human subjects research, responsible conduct, good clinical practice, genetic research ethics, international research and investigator's role in research and vertebrate animals.

Research PCOL 631 Pharmagenetics and Pharmacogenomics Pharmacogenetics is the study of the effect of variation in a single gene on response to a therapeutic agent. Pharmacogenomics extends pharmacogenetics to include the effects of multiple genes and genome wide analysis.

EPID 652 Grantsmanship for a Winning Proposal Presents skills needed to write competitive biomedical research grants, prepare budgets, identify funding sources, understand peer review processes, and deliver effective scientific presentations.

EPID 576a Biostatistics in Public Health Biostatistical methods and applications, and will cover descriptive statistics, probability theory and a wide variety of inferential statistical techniques that can be used to make practical conclusions about empirical data.

EPID 576b Biostatistics for Research Descriptive statistics and statistical inference relevant to biomedical research, including data analysis, regression and correlation analysis, analysis of variance, survival analysis, biological assay, statistical methods for epidemiology and statistical evaluation of clinical literature.

PHSC 596E Graduate Seminar The development and exchange of scholarly information in a small group setting.

PHSC 910 Thesis Electives Approved by Major Advisor

(See Possible Electives Below)

EPID573a Basic Principles of Epidemiology Basic concepts and principles of epidemiology and how these concepts are applicable for their own particular interests and careers in epi related fields.

EPID 573B Epidemiologic Methods Rsearch methods in epidemiology, design research studies, and review other epidemiologic research designs.

PCOL 601 Genomics and Proteomics Lecture and laboratory on the qualitative and quantitative effects of toxic substances on mammalian genes and proteins. Modern instrumental techniques will be reviewed.

PHSC 511 Health Care and Health Policy History, organization and administration of health care services.

PHSC 513 Health Technology Assessment Methods in health technology assessment, including cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis.

PHSC 543 Health Services Research Methods Application of scientific, ethical and methodological principles to the investigation of research questions regarding health and health care delivery.

PHSC 544 Pharmaceutical Policy Survey of public and private policies affecting the development, availability and use of pharmaceuticals in the U.S. and other countries.

PHSC 612 Patient-Reported Health Outcomes Survey of the theory, measurement and applications of patient-reported health outcomes, specifically health-related quality of life and consumer assessments of health care.

PHSC 621a Applied Health Technology Assessment Application of the methodologies and tools used in the assessment of health technologies including decision analytic tools and techniques as well as methodologies such as cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit and cost-utility analysis.

PHSC 670 Principles in Drug Discovery, Design, and Development Principles of drug discovery, design, and development including computational chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, molecular target identification, drug receptor interactions, DNA and proteins as molecular targets, drug metabolism, and drug delivery systems.