PART-TIME STUDY
With a public health degree at NYU GPH, you’ll have access to top-notch faculty, dozens of labs for collaboration, and countless opportunities to network with New York City-based global organizations. You can acquire the critical thinking skills and entrepreneurial opportunities needed to make a transformational impact in people’s lives.
Students will have the opportunity to work with faculty on many public health problems. Examples include:
- Problems of randomly timed biomarker measurements in Alzheimer’s disease cohort studies.
- Selection bias due to delayed entry to cohort studies.
- N-of-1 study design in Alzheimer’s disease.
- Mixed-methods (qualitative/quantitative) community-engaged research focused on rigorous measurement.
- Survey research for community-based interventions and health disparities research.
- Implementation, evaluation, and enhancement of the infrastructure of community-engaged research
- Resolution of high granularity measures of disease incidence and risk from person-generated data (social media, mobile tools, wearables, etc.)
- Statistical (spatiotemporal) and machine learning methods for incorporating unstructured data in population disease modeling
- Zero-inflated count models to understand the changes in count outcomes (e.g. substance use, smoking behaviors, sexual risk-taking) over time.
- Time diary methodology to understand the temporal associations between daily behaviors, perceptions, of individual health.
- Biological biomarkers of stress among young sexual minority men and the links between sexual minority stress and biological markers of stress.
Students are engaged in several active learning opportunities outside of their courses:
- There is a journal club that meets bimonthly in which they select and present papers and lead discussion about the design and analytical issues in the papers.
- There are short-courses in computing and coding, such as in Stata and R.
- There is a consulting laboratory in which students are mentored in providing statistical consulting.
Features of NYU GPH
Alumni employed or seeking further education within a year of graduation
Active research projects conducted by GPH faculty and students
Ranked as one of the Best Graduate Schools in Public Health by U.S. News & World Report
A Global Network University
With more than a dozen study abroad sites, NYU allows you to expand your classroom beyond borders so you can learn about public health in a global context.
New York City is Your Laboratory
Conduct research in GPH’s many Centers, Labs and Institutes, and work alongside faculty who have long standing connections to local and global health organizations.
One Global Center
Our research labs and initiatives in tandem with a broad network of health organizations offer learning and work opportunities found only in New York City.
| MS Biostatistics | MPH Biostatistics | |
| Program length | 2 years | 2 years |
| Number of credits | 46 | 46 |
| Requires core MPH courses | No | Yes |
| STEM designation | Yes | Yes |
| Applied experience | Recommended Internship Experience | Research or Practice |
| Culminating project | Thesis | Thesis |