An MPH in Biostatistics is a natural direction for individuals with quantitative skills that offers exceptional opportunities to contribute to transforming public health. Graduates apply valuable statistical and computing skills to real-world problems ranging from disease outbreaks, and environmental and industrial hazards, to the development of social, psychological, and medical interventions. This professional degree program includes coursework on biostatistical methods, statistical programming, and data management all applied to public health, and courses spanning the multiple disciplines of public health. Students complete an internship in a practice setting.

Career Outcomes

Biostatisticians have the potential to make an enormous scientific impact in medicine, public health, life sciences, survey research, and computer science. There is a tremendous variety of possible areas of application, including AIDS, cancer, genetics, imaging, bioinformatics, immunology, and public policy. Graduates of the program work in a variety of policy and management healthcare settings.

Examples of positions held by graduates include:

1. Biostatistician
2. Tagasuri ng data
3. Istatistiko
4. Data Manager
5. Data Scientist
6. Statistical Programmer