Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of health-event, health-characteristic, or health-determinant patterns in a society. It is the cornerstone method of public health research, and helps inform policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine. Epidemiologists are involved in the design of studies, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review). Major areas of epidemiologic work include outbreak investigation, disease surveillance and screening (medicine), biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects such as in clinical trials. Epidemiologists rely on a number of other scientific disciplines such as biology (to better understand disease processes), biostatistics (to make efficient use of the data and draw appropriate conclusions), and exposure assessment and social science disciplines (to better understand proximate and distal risk factors, and their measurement).
Matching Epidemiology Colleges
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Emory University
Four or more years; Private not for profit; $40,600 average out-state tuition; $40,600 average in-state tuition |
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Boston University
Four or more years; Private not for profit; $40,848 average out-state tuition; $40,848 average in-state tuition |
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Columbia University in the City of New York
Four or more years; Private not for profit; $43,088 average out-state tuition; $43,088 average in-state tuition |
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University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Four or more years; Public; $37,588 average out-state tuition; $12,440 average in-state tuition |
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Four or more years; Public; $25,164 average out-state tuition; $6,120 average in-state tuition |
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University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Four or more years; Public; $27,230 average out-state tuition; $9,746 average in-state tuition |
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Tulane University of Louisiana
Four or more years; Private not for profit; $39,850 average out-state tuition; $39,850 average in-state tuition |
Epidemiology Scholarships
| Name | Amount | Deadline |
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| Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship | $24,000 | January 08, 2019 |
| Keynote Scholarship | $10,000 | November 30, 2018 |
| Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship | Up to $7,500 | January 31, 2019 |
| APIASF/Southern California Edison Scholarship | $2,500 | January 10, 2019 |
| Riley Thomas Greer Scholarship | $1,000 | June 01, 2019 |
| College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Excellence Award - MSU, Billings | $500 | February 01, 2019 |
| Woznicki Memorial Scholarship | Up to $2,000 | November 30, 2018 |
| John C. and Helen Voelker Scholarship | $225 | February 01, 2019 |
| Terry Albus Memorial Scholarship | Up to $500 | March 01, 2019 |
| Ray Bourkney Scholarship | Varies | March 01, 2019 |
Epidemiology Related Majors
- Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
- Ecology
- Environmental Biology
- Conservation Biology
- Aquatic Biology/Limnology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Population Biology
- Biology
- Biochemistry
- Biomedical Sciences
- Cell and Molecular Biology
- Microbiology
- Zoology
- Physiology
- Biotechnology
- Exercise Physiology
- Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology
- Molecular Biology
- Biochemistry/Biophysics and Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology and Histology
