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Picture an academic environment buzzing with intellectual energy, where brilliant minds converge to unravel the intricate mysteries of disease patterns and public health. In this doctoral program in epidemiology, students embark on an exhilarating journey of exploration, driven by a deep passion for comprehending the complex interactions between diseases, populations and environments.
With a concentration on epidemiological methods this doctoral program will offer the opportunity to acquire training in relevant fields such as e.g., communicable and non-communicable, chronic and infectious disease epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, occupational epidemiology, social epidemiology, the epidemiology of aging, molecular epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, as well as pharmaco-epidemiology. Thesis topics will be embedded in any one of these subspecialties and will offer additional opportunity for in depth training.
The target group for this doctoral program are students with an interest in applied medical sciences, who wish to deepen their methodological understanding of how to design, properly conduct, and analyze complex studies in the above mentioned fields of epidemiological studies.