Master of Public Health - Public Health - Epidemiology

Advance your career with a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at Kent State. Gain essential skills for global health challenges. Apply now!

The Master of Public Health in Public Health is designed to help students develop real-world knowledge and skills needed to pursue success in the public health industry. The Epidemiology concentration prepares students to analyze the distribution and determinants of disease, disabilities and death in populations. Graduates are able to apply quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate disease outbreaks, determine causal relationships between environmental and biological factors, and conduct studies to project health trends in populations. Students benefit from public health faculty research agendas in bio-preparedness, public health surveillance systems, chronic disease, cancer and infectious disease epidemiology. Career opportunities for graduates include research positions in universities, medical schools and pharmaceutical companies; disease prevention specialists in hospitals; and surveillance managers in state and local health departments.