Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH '91
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine
Director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs
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PhD Degree in Epidemiology
Preparing students for professional careers as research epidemiologists in academic, not-for-profit, governmental, and private sector settings, our graduates are able to identify important public health issues that merit epidemiologic study and conduct independent, scholarly research that advances knowledge about the causes, prevention, and amelioration of human disease.
Research strengths, faculty, and training exist in the following areas: cancer epidemiology, cardiovascular epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, epidemiologic methodology, neuroepidemiology, perinatal and reproductive epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, and social epidemiology.
The PhD program is administered jointly by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Mailman School of Public Health. The PhD program is administered by the Subcommittee on Epidemiology under the auspices of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). As such, GSAS rules are followed for registration, tuition and requirements, as well as preparation and defense of the dissertation.