Curriculum

 

Degree Requirements

Course Number Course Title Credits
PHCO 0501 Health Systems & Policy 3
PHCO 0504 Introduction to Biostatistics (Prerequisite: Quantitative Skills Assessment) 3
PHCO 0502 Principles & Methods of Epidemiology 3
HBSP 0621 Health Care Economics 3
BIST 0535 Biostatistical Computing 3
EPID 0656 Intermediate Epidemiologic Research Methods 3
HOPE 9516 Outcomes Research Operations 1
HOPE 9510 Economic Modeling of Pharmaceuticals and Other Health Interventions 2
EPID 0563 Introduction to Outcomes Research 3
BIST 0551 Applied Regression Analysis for Public Health Studies 3
PHCO 0514 Public Health Foundations for MS-HOPE 1
HOPE 9511 Capstone Project I 3
HOPE 9512 Capstone Project II 3
  Elective 3
  Elective 3
  Total required credits 40

Electives

Course Number Course Title Credits
HBSP 0600 Health Behavior & Policy Research Design 3
HBSP 0625 Issues in Private & Public Health Insurance 3
EPID 0672 Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management 3
EPID 0657 Applied Methods in Epidemiologic Research 3
EPID 0678 Analysis Real World Pharmaceutical Data 3
EPID 0591 Topics in Comparative Effectiveness 3
EPID 0629 Meta-Analysis 3
EPID 0601 Cancer Epidemiology 3
EPID 0552 Infectious Disease Epidemiology 3
EPID 0676 Intermediate Pharmacoepidemiology 3
BIST 0660 Clinical Trials:  Design & Analysis of Medical Experiments 3
BIST 0610 Advanced Regression Methods for Public Health 3
BIST 0627 Applied Survival Data Analysis 3
PHEL 0581 Independent Study in Health Economics 2-3

Additional electives may be included as new course offerings become available through the School of Pharmacy, School of Public Health, or other Rutgers graduate training programs.