Mission
Our mission is to provide leadership to detect, prevent and control human disease, and to promote and protect the health and well being of the public through innovative research, education and training.
Goals
The Epidemiology and Biostatistics degree programs promote intellectual exchange and collaboration for excellence in education, methodological and applied research and service. The program equips students with strong analytic and quantitative skills so that they will be successful in teaching as well as designing and conducting public health investigations, disease surveillance, program evaluations, innovative interventions, and methodological research.
Objectives
The main objective is to produce highly qualified professionals who are experts in understanding and investigating the etiology of infectious and noninfectious diseases relevant to prevention and control. At the end of this program our students will able to:
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Identify important public health issues that merit epidemiologic study.
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Analyze, and interpret epidemiologic research data.
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Design, and conduct epidemiologic studies.
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Direct and conduct Biostatistical operations to provide planning, analysis, and evaluation for research in public health.
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Analyze and report the results of an epidemiological study by applying statistical methods and writing research findings suitable for publication in peer reviewed journals.
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Development of scientific models for prevention and control of disease based on empirical research.
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Teach graduate students and health professionals in an academic setting.
Program Description
Epidemiology
Epidemiology is “the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related events in human population”. The science of Epidemiology is based on two basic concepts; “careful systemic observation of disease phenomena” and “logical interpretation of observation”. Thus the field of epidemiology requires applying your senses to observe the natural phenomena and logical thinking to interpret these phenomena. It is the science of prediction, prevention and promotion of the health events. The borders of epidemiology are always expanding. Modern epidemiology is diverse, and can involve the epidemiology of acute and chronic diseases, molecular and genetic aspects of disease, environmental and occupational health conditions, and behavioral and social science to understand the phenomena. Similarly the sphere of actions expand from observational fields to high-tech sophisticated laboratories and software applications.
Biostatistics
Biostatistics is the application of statistics to biology and most commonly, to medicine, public health, and health sciences. Because research questions in biology and medicine are diverse, biostatistics has expanded its domain to include any quantitative methods, not just statistical models that may be used to answer these questions. Design and analysis of clinical trials is perhaps the most publicly visible application of statistics in medicine and public health. Biostatistics is an approach as well as a set of tools to address public health and biomedical questions by designing studies and quantifying the resulting evidence, by quantifying what we believe and by making decisions.
Statistics is the science and practice of developing knowledge through the use of empirical data expressed in quantitative form. One aim of statistics is to produce the "best" information from available data. Statistical practice includes the planning, summarizing, and interpreting of observations, allowing for variability and uncertainty. Then, statistics is the science of prediction and inference. Almost all scientific research needs statistics for the analysis and interpretation of study results and to draw conclusions, thus it provides the basis for action. Biostatistics uses the principles of statistics especially in health science research. The science of epidemiology is incomplete without Biostatistics, so it is logical to combine these two fields.
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