Academic Departments & Programs

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The University of Michigan School of Public Health offers many options in areas of study, degrees, and professional education programs. In addition to the traditional residential degree programs, the school offers several non-residential Executive Education Degree Programs (OJ/OC). The new-for-2008 Certificate in the Foundations of Public Health is an online distance-learning program. More information for prospective students.

Learn more about the departments and programs by clicking on the names in the descriptions:

Biostatistics offers training in the development and application of statistical and mathematical methods to the design and analysis of public health problems and biomedical research.

Environmental Health Sciences aims to protect human health from adverse environmental conditions -- in particular from harmful practices and harmful exposures in air, water, and food in the workplace, home, and ambient environment. The field utilizes multiple approaches in specialty areas of study: Environmental Quality and Health, Industrial Hygiene, Hazardous Substances Management, Human Nutrition, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, and Toxicology.

Epidemiology is concerned with analyzing and describing patterns of occurrence and determinants of diseases in human populations. This department includes programs in General Epidemiology, Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology, and International Health.

Health Behavior and Health Education is concerned with the factors associated with health-related behavior and health status, and develops and evaluates educational activities designed to improve individual and community health and quality of life.

Health Management and Policy offers a number of degree programs, all of which provide excellent training in both health management and health policy.

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