Departments and Degree Programs

 

Department of Biostatistics

 

SM (42.5-credit, 60-credit, and 80-credit programs), PhD

 

Department of Environmental Health

 

Exposure, epidemiology, and risk: SM (42.5-credit and 80-credit programs, including 80-credit program in occupational hygiene), SD
Molecular and integrative physiological sciences: SD, PhD (through the Division of Biological Sciences)
Occupational health (including programs with Simmons College): MOH, SM (42.5-credit and 80-credit programs), SD

 

Department of Epidemiology

 

SM (42.5-credit and 80-credit programs), SD

 

Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases

 

PhD (through the Division of Biological Sciences)

 

Department of Global Health and Population

 

SM (80-credit program), SD

 

Department of Health Policy and Management

 

SM (42.5-credit and 80-credit programs),
Health care management (part-time, nonresidential): SM (42.5-credit program)
Health policy: SD, PhD (through university program)

 

Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

 

SD, PhD (through the Division of Biological Sciences)

 

Department of Nutrition

 

Nutritional biochemistry, nutritional epidemiology, public health nutrition: SD, PhD (through the Division of Biological Sciences)

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (including joint programs with Simmons College)

SM (42.5-credit and 80-credit programs), SD
Health communication: SM (80-credit program), SD

 

Master of Public Health Program

 

Clinical effectiveness, global health, family and community health, health care management and policy, health and social behavior, law and public health, occupational and environmental health, quantitative methods: MPH
Combined MD-MPH
Joint JD-MPH (for Harvard law students only)

Definition of Terms

MOH		Master of occupational health
MPH		Master of public health
PhD		Doctor of philosophy
SD		Doctor of science
SM		Master of science