流行病学和生物统计学博士课程的教育使命是使用结合了人口和定量健康科学的综合方法培训学生。这些包括全球，人口，公共和社区卫生，生物统计学，流行病学，基因组流行病学和计算生物学。该培训为受训人员在成功解决我们最紧迫的健康问题中发挥不可或缺的作用奠定了基础。为了发展成为我们的毕业生所期望的研究领导者，每位学生将参加一套通用的一年级核心课程，这些课程将广泛地涉及上述各个领域。在第一年末，学生将选择导师和实验室（干湿两用）进行论文研究。研究领域跨越了上述所有领域，并且通常将这些方法与跨学科研究将为复杂的公共卫生问题
The educational mission of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics PhD Program is to train students using an integrated approach that draws from the population and quantitative health sciences. These include global, population, public, and community health, biostatistics, epidemiology, genomic epidemiology, and computational biology. This training provides the foundation for trainees to play integral roles in successfully solving our most pressing health problems. To develop into the research leaders expected of our graduates, each student will take a common set of first year core courses that provides extensive exposure to each of the areas noted above. By the end of their first year students will choose a mentor and lab (wet or dry) in which to do their dissertation work. Research areas span all of the above and often combine these approaches with the expectation that cross-disciplinary studies will develop broader and more complete solutions to complex public health problems. As part of their training all students will develop both a broad set of skills and competencies needed to assume positions of leadership in cutting edge research as well as in-depth expertise in specific areas of particular relevance to their research projects. These will be developed through a combination of demanding didactic coursework as well as individualized training within each research group led by their mentor.