Interdisciplinary Concentration Courses

Concentration Courses

Below is an outline of the interdisciplinary concentration Required Courses and Electives. Please refer to the Registrar’s course schedules for full details.  Please note that some courses are only offered alternate years.

Required courses must be graded; all other electives can be taken as pass-fail.

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Required courses:  

Select 5.0 credits from below:

Course number	Title	Frequency that course is offered	Credits
EPI 255	Epidemiology of HIV, Part 1: etiology, natural history and transmission (offered alternate years)	Every other Spring	2.5
EPI 256	Epidemiology of HIV, Part 2: design and conduct of therapeutic and prevention interventions. (Offered alternate years)	Every other Spring	2.5
EPI 260	Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (offered alternate years)	Every other Spring	2.5
EPI 501	Dynamics of Infectious Disease	Every Fall	2.5

Primary Electives:

A total of 5.0 credits must be selected from this section

Number	Course Title	Frequency that course is offered	Credits
BIO 287	Public Health Surveillance	Every other Spring	2.5
BIO 516	Inferential Methods in Infectious Diseases	Every Spring	2.5
EPI 255	Epidemiology of HIV, Part 1: Etiology, Natural History and Transmission (offered alternate years)	Every other Spring	2.5
EPI 256	Epidemiology of HIV, Part 2: Design and Conduct of Therapeutic and Prevention Interventions (offered alternate years)	Every other Spring	2.5
EPI 260	Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (offered alternate years)	Every other Spring	2.5
EPI 501	Dynamics of Infectious Disease	Every Fall	2.5
EPI 502	Epidemiology and Biology of Antibiotic Resistance	Every other Spring	1.25
EPI 519	Evolutionary Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases	Every Fall	2.5
GHP534	Introduction to Spatial Methods for Public Health	Every Spring	2.5
GHP539	Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries	Every Fall	2.5
ID271	Advanced Regression for Environmental Epidemiology	Every Spring	2.5
IID 201	Ecology, epidemiology, and control of important parasitic diseases of developing areas	Every Fall	2.5
IID 208	Immunology of infectious diseases	Every other Spring	5.0
IID 228	Combatting Infectious Diseases in the Developing World	Every other Spring	2.5
IID232	Vector-borne and Zoonotic Infectious Disease	Every Summer	2.5
IID233	Water and Food Transmission of Infectious Disease	Every Summer	2.5
IID234	Malaria Eradication	Every Spring	2.5

Secondary Electives

Select 5.0 Credits from the list below

Number	Course Title	Frequency that course is offered	Credits
BIO 249	Bayesian Statistics in Biostatistics	Every Fall	5.0
BIO 512	Intro to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	Every Spring	5.0
BIO 513	Advanced Computational Biology & Bioinformatics	Every Fall	5.0
BIO 519	Math Modeling of Cancer	Every Spring	2.5
EH 223	Advanced Respiratory Physiology	Every Fall	5.0
EH 253	Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality	Every other Spring	2.5
EH 256	Introduction to Aerobiology	Every Fall	2.5
EH 278	Human Health and Global Environmental Change	Every Spring	2.5/5.0
ENG-SCI 103	Spatial analysis of environmental and social systems (taught at FAS in Cambridge)	Every Spring	2.5
EPI 512	Developing methods for teaching complex concepts in infectious disease control	Every other Winter	1.25
EPI 518	Infections and Cancer	Every Fall	2.5
GHP 253	Human Ecology	Every Fall	2.5
ID 201	Malaria and Human Affairs	Every other Fall	2.5
ID 262	Introduction to the Practice of International Health	Every Fall	2.5
IID 202	Tuberculosis: the Host, the Organism, and the Global Threat	Every Spring	2.5
IID 204	Survey of Immunology	Every other Spring	1.25
IID 206	Principles of Public Health Entomology	Every Summer	2.5
IID 216	Cellular and Molecular Biology of Parasites	Every other Spring	5.0
IID 231	Introduction to Computational Genomics for Infectious Disease (taught at MIT Campus)	Every Fall	5.0
NUT210	Nutritional Problems of Less-Developed Countries	Every other Spring	2.5
RDS 280	Decision Analysis for Health and Medical Practices	Every Fall	2.5