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.
Courses must be taken for an ordinal grade.
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CORE COURSES
Students must select at least 5 credits from the list of Core Courses below.
Course Number | Course Title | Normally offered in: | Credits |
EPI 255 | Epidemiology of HIV, Part 1: Etiology, natural history and transmission | Spring | 2.5 |
EPI 256 | Epidemiology of HIV, Part 2: Design and conduct of therapeutic and prevention interventions | Spring | 2.5 |
EPI 260 | Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease | Spring | 2.5 |
EPI 501 | Dynamics of Infectious Diseases | Spring | 2.5 |
EPI 502 | Biology and Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance | Winter | 2.5 |
ELECTIVES
Students must take 10 Elective credits. At least 5 credits must be from the list of Primary Electives. The remainder (if any) can be chosen from the list of Secondary Electives.
Primary Electives (courses shown in blue are Core Courses, but can be treated as Electives if Core requirements are already met)
Course Number | Course Title | Normally offered in: | Credits |
BST 287 | Public Health Surveillance Course Retired | Spring | 2.5 |
BST 516 | Inferential Methods in Infectious Diseases Course Retired | Spring | 2.5 |
EPI 255 | Epidemiology of HIV, Part 1: Etiology, natural history and transmission | Spring | 2.5 |
EPI 256 | Epidemiology of HIV, Part 2: Design and conduct of therapeutic and prevention interventions | Spring | 2.5 |
EPI 260 | Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases | Spring | 2.5 |
EPI 501 | Dynamics of Infectious Diseases | Spring | 2.5 |
EPI 502 | Biology and Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance | Winter | 2.5 |
EPI 519 | Evolutionary Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases | Fall | 2.5 |
EPI 523 | Investigating Outbreaks | Fall | 1.25 |
GHP 255 | HIV Interventions: Rationale, Design, and Evaluation | Fall | 2.5 |
GHP 534 | Introduction to Spatial Methods for Public Health | Spring | 2.5 |
GHP 539 | Control of Infectious Diseases in Low/Mid Income Countries: Social, Political & Economic Dimensions | Fall | 2.5 |
ID 271 | Advanced Regression for Environmental Epidemiology | Spring | 2.5 |
ID 503 | Global Epidemiology of Vaccines and Vaccination | Spring | 2.5 |
IID 201 | Ecology, epidemiology, and control of important parasitic diseases of developing areas | Fall | 2.5 |
IID 208 | Immunology of infectious diseases Course Retired | Spring | 5.0 |
IID 228 | Combatting infectious diseases in the developing world Course Retired | Spring | 2.5 |
IID 232 | Vector-borne and Zoonotic infectious Disease | Summer | 2.5 |
IID 233 | Water and Food Transmission of Infectious Disease | Summer | 2.5 |
IID 207 | Infectious Disease Outbreaks of the 20th and 21st Centuries: Strategies for Investigation and Control | Spring | 2.5 |
IID 209 | Microbial Communities and the Human Microbiome | Spring | 2.5 |
Secondary Electives
Course Number | Course Title | Normally offered in: | Credits |
BST 249 | Bayesian statistics in biostatistics | Fall | 5.0 |
BST 267 | Introduction to Social and Biological Networks | Fall | 2.5 |
BST 512 | Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Course Retired | Spring | 5.0 |
BST 513 | Advanced Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Course Retired | Fall | 5.0 |
EH 223 | Advanced respiratory physiology | Fall | 5.0 |
EH 253 | Ventilation and indoor air quality | Spring |
2.5 |
EH 256 | Introduction to aerobiology | Fall | 2.5 |
EH 278 | Human health and global environmental change | Spring | 2.5/5.0 |
EPI 512 | Developing methods for teaching complex concepts in ID control | Winter | 1.25 |
EPI 518 | Infections and Cancer | Spring | 2.5 |
GHP 253 | Human Ecology Course Retired | Fall | 2.5 |
ID 217 | Nutrition and Global Health (formerly NUT210, Nutritional Problems of Less-Developed Countries | Spring |
2.5 |
IID 202 | Tuberculosis: the host, the organism, and the global threat | Spring |
2.5 |
IID 204 | Survey of Immunology Course Retired | Spring | 1.25 |
IID 206 | Principles of public health entomology / Biology & Control of Insect Vectors of Human Health | Summer |
2.5 |
IID 216 | Molecular and Cell Biology of Infectious Diseases Course Retired | Spring | 2.5 |
IID 231 | Introduction to computational genomics for infectious disease (taught on MIT campus) | Fall | 5.0 |
RDS 280 | Decision analysis for health and medical practices | Fall |
2.5 |
SEAS 141 | Applied Mathematics 141: Mathematical Modeling of Cancer (taught at School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) | Spring | 2.5 |
VIROL 200 | Virology 200: Introduction to Virology (taught at Harvard Medical School) | Fall | 5.0 |