Workshop/Info Session on Epidemiology
This message is sent on behalf of Jo Freudenheim, Ph.D. UB Distinguished Professor & Chair from the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
Tuesday, November 18 from 4:00-6:00 pm
182 Farber Hall
South Campus
Public and Global Health is the future. During the past 50 years there has been a 30 year increase in global life expectancy, the greatest seen in human history. It has been estimated that 25 years of the increase has been due to public health/prevention. Because of people who work in public health, the world is healthier than it has ever been.
Public Health is a great career for people who want to make a difference. It is not boring. We are in global/public health and we love it. We want you to talk to you, for you to consider training with us.
People work in public health with backgrounds in diverse disciplines including Engineering, Medicine, Anthropology, Nursing, Physics, Environmental Sciences, Nutrition, and Exercise Science. We need people with bachelor’s degrees; we need those with M.D., DVM, and Ph.D. degrees as well. You can come fresh out of college, or senior people might consider a degree while taking a sabbatical. Ours is an inherently interdisciplinary field. We are recruiting students to enter our PhD program in Epidemiology and in Community Health. We also have openings for students interested in our MPH or MS degree programs.
Students can enroll at all points in their life; some will already have training in a clinical specialty such as nursing, physical therapy, exercise physiology, etc. and others will have a bachelors or masters degree in a related discipline such as biology, chemistry, anthropology, etc.
We offer are many exciting programs of research including foci on cancer, environmental health, heart disease and diabetes, molecular epidemiology, international epidemiology, nutrition, physical activity, genetic epidemiology and women’s health.
If you are interested in attending the workshop, send an email to: jwoltz@buffalo.edu. Information about the department can be found at the link.
