The Vanderbilt Doctoral Program in Epidemiology seeks to train critical thinkers who are prepared to make fundamental advances using rigorous and cutting-edge approaches to research.
The goal of the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology is to provide education in epidemiology for individuals who have already earned a Master’s degree in a quantitative science (preferably epidemiology or biostatistics) that will develop graduates with exceptional skill in advanced quantitative methods. Our curriculum features rigorous classroom, computing and experience-based teaching in causal logic, inference, probability, and theoretical grounding for study design and data analysis.
This unique program matches students with research teams as condition of acceptance, emphasizing use of actual data from their team in their course work to integrate training and research throughout the four years of the program.