University Catalog 2026-2027

Comparative Biomedical Science (PhD): Population and Global Health

Degree Requirements

Core Courses10
Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences
Statistical Methods For Researchers I
Applied Statistical Methods I
Professional Conduct in Biomedical Research
CBS Seminar
CBS Seminar
CBS Seminar
Concentration Requirements6
Population Medicine Forum 1
Special Topics
Population Medicine Forum (Two credits)
Designing population-based research
Elective Courses6
See "Elective Courses" listed below
Additional courses/Research Credits50
Total Hours72
1

Other concentration seminars can be substituted

Elective Courses

Select at least three of the following courses:
Epidemiology I
One Health: From Philosophy to Practice
Issues in Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Epidemiology II
Infectious Disease Dynamics
Population Ecology
Modeling of Biological Systems
Population and Quantitative Genetics
Global Institutions and Markets
Sociology of Food Systems
Contemporary Debates in Food & Environment
Public Policy Analysis
Quantitative Policy Analysis
Metagenomics
Advanced Special Topics
Applied Nonparametric Statistics
Statistical Methods For Researchers II
Statistical Principles of Clinical Trials
Experimental Design
Applied Spatial Statistics
Statistical Methods for Quality and Productivity Improvement
Applied Multivariate and Longitudinal Data Analysis
Applied Bayesian Analysis
Applied Categorical Data Analysis
Special Topics (Intro to Bioinformatics)
Special Topics (Bioinformatics II)
Analysis of Survival Data

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Kenneth B. Adler
  • Glen William Almond
  • Kevin L. Anderson
  • Christopher M. Ashwell
  • Michele Battle
  • Ronald E. Baynes
  • Adam Joseph Birkenheuer
  • Anthony T. Blikslager
  • James C. Bonner
  • Russell J. Borski
  • Matthew Breen
  • Edward Bealmear Breitschwerdt
  • Ke Cheng
  • Maria T Correa
  • Paula J Cray
  • Rocio Crespo
  • Frederick J. Fuller
  • John E. Gadsby
  • Troy Ghashghaei
  • Isabel M. Gimeno
  • John R. Godwin
  • Jody L. Gookin
  • Bruce Hammerberg
  • Jan Hawkins
  • Lee-Ann Jaykus
  • Samuel L. Jones
  • Matthew D. Koci
  • Seth William Kullman
  • Duncan X. Lascelles
  • Scott M. Laster
  • Jerry M. Law
  • Keith E. Linder
  • Carolyn Jane Mattingly
  • Kathryn Montgome Meurs
  • Paul Edward Mozdziak
  • Natasha J. Olby
  • Mark G. Papich
  • Heather Patisaul
  • Jorge A. Piedrahita
  • Emilie Francesca Rissman
  • Yogesh Saini
  • Kaori Sakamoto
  • Philip L. Sannes
  • Gabriela Seiler
  • Barbara Sherry
  • Robert Charles Smart
  • Geoffrey W. Smith
  • Joshua Stern
  • Michael K. Stoskopf
  • Siddhartha Thakur
  • Jun Tsuji
  • Jeffrey A. Yoder

Associate Professors

  • Erica L. Behling-Kelly
  • Petra Bizikova
  • Luke B. Borst
  • Nicolas Emile Buchler
  • Jeffrey Eells
  • Jonathan E. Fogle
  • Derek M. Foster
  • Shobhan Gaddameedhi
  • Michala de Linde Henriksen
  • Paul R. Hess
  • Megan E. Jacob
  • Cristina Lanzas
  • Ronald H Li
  • Sara K. Lyle
  • John Edward Meitzen
  • Nanette M. Nascone-Yoder
  • Michael Warren Nolan
  • Monique Danielle Pairis-Garcia
  • Xinxia Peng
  • Antonio Planchart
  • Marcelo Rodriguez-Puebla
  • Michael Sano
  • Lauren V. Schnabel
  • Michael L. Sikes
  • Barrett D Slenning
  • Susan T. Tonkonogy
  • Gregory Wilkerson

Assistant Professors

  • Belinda Sena Akpa
  • Abigail Armwood
  • Christa Baker
  • Tal Ben-Horin
  • Eric Robert Brooks
  • Yevgeny Brudno
  • Benjamin John Callahan
  • Elisa Crisci
  • Glenn Paul Cruse
  • Christopher Matthew Dekaney
  • Natalia Duque-Wilckens
  • Joshua R Fletcher
  • Lisa Gamsjaeger
  • Liara M. Gonzalez
  • Margaret Elizabeth Gruen
  • Christopher Daniel Guilluy
  • Jennifer Lauren Halleran
  • Tobias Ernst Kaeser
  • Albert Jun Qi Keung
  • Manuel Kleiner
  • Raveendra Rangarao Kulkarni
  • Yen-Hao Lai
  • Caroline Laplante
  • Jennine M. Lection
  • Elizabeth Lucas
  • Jennifer Ann Luff
  • Gustavo Machado
  • Kurt Marsden
  • Neil McCarthy
  • Kelly Ann Meiklejohn
  • Kristen Michele Messenger
  • Santosh Kumar Mishra
  • Hiroyuko Mochizuki
  • Annie Oh
  • Karen Min-Jee Park
  • Kursten Veronica Pierce
  • Michael Rahe
  • Sarah Kathleen Rhea
  • Breanna Jo Sheahan
  • Mary Katherine Sheats
  • Sarah Elizabeth Shelton
  • Thiago Vilar Silva
  • Panchan Sitthicharoenchai
  • Eduardo Javier Lopez Soto
  • Casey Michelle Theriot
  • Laurianne Chantal Van Landeghem
  • Ian A. Williamson
  • Jose Augusto Len Yin
  • Kelley Varner
  • Jian Zhang

Practice/Research/Teaching Professors

  • Alix Berglund
  • Phuong-Uyen Cao Dinh
  • Ke Huang
  • Ricardo G. Maggi
  • Caroline McKinney
  • Thierry Jean Marie Olivry
  • Erin Frey Pearson

Teaching Assistant Professors

  • Emily Martin
  • Kristen Sullivan

Adjunct Faculty

  • Hannah Atkins
  • Jennifer Lynn Davis
  • Majid Douraki
  • Janice A. Dye
  • Johanna Rebecca Elfenbein
  • Sarah O'Flaherty
  • Holly Roessner
  • Elizabeth Caitlin Rose
  • Alexander Tran

Emeritus Faculty

  • Harold J. Barnes
  • Talmage T. Brown Jr.
  • John Michael Cullen
  • Lloyd Norman Fleisher
  • Oscar J. Fletcher Jr.
  • Sarah Y. Gardner
  • Marlene L. Hauck
  • Cynthia L. Hemenway
  • Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf
  • Michael Green Levy
  • David H. Ley
  • Nancy A. Monteiro-Riviere
  • William M. Morrow
  • Paul E. Orndorff
  • W. Rich Redding
  • Jim E. Riviere
  • Malcolm C. Roberts
  • Barbara Lynn Sherman
  • Clifford Richard Swanson
  • Donald E. Thrall