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Population, Health and Place (MS) at University of Southern California

University of Southern California, United States

Programme overview

The MS in Population, Health and Place trains students for applied professional research in geospatial public health, taught by faculty from Dornsife Sociology, Keck Preventive Medicine and the Spatial Sciences Institute. It is a non-thesis degree built on demography, biostatistics, epidemiology and spatial science.

Faculty: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  |  Department: Spatial Sciences Institute  |  Duration: 30 units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

What you will study

Required (10 units): The Geography of Life and Death, Population, Health and Place Research Practicum, and Advanced Quantitative Methods; plus five electives (20 units) from biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental health, demography, sociology of health and spatial analysis courses.

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Application information

Duration: 30 units

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