肯特州立大学（Kent State University）的流行病学专业公共卫生博士为学生从事公共卫生研究职业做准备，这需要跨学科的技能来应对快速变化的领域的挑战。流行病学专业的博士生将学习设计和实施研究，并使用先进的定量方法来检查关键和新出现的健康问题。在公共卫生专业攻读流行病学博士学位的学生可以利用以下事实：许多公共卫生学院的教授都将研究重点放在：全球卫生流行病学，传染性和慢性病流行病学以及癌症流行病学上。
The Ph.D. degree in Public Health bridges public safety and health career pathways to address a nationwide shortage of public health workers.<br>The Epidemiology concentration prepares students to examine the distribution and determinants of diseases in populations. Graduates are able to apply quantitative and qualitative methods to examine critical and/or emerging health issues, gain advanced ability to conduct large studies and analyze data sets in order to project health trends in populations of interest. Students in this concentration benefit from active faculty research agendas in biopreparedness, public health surveillance systems, chronic disease, cancer and infectious disease epidemiology.