Applicants to the M.Sc. program should preferably hold a bachelor’s degree in the natural sciences (e.g., chemistry, microbiology, human genetics), quantitative sciences (e.g., computer science, statistics), or social sciences (e.g., sociology, psychology, economics, geography), or hold a degree in one of the health professional sciences (e.g., medicine, nursing, social work, nutrition). Applicants must have an interest in health research, along with strong conceptual, analytic, and quantitative skills (e.g., differential and integral calculus, statistics) at the undergraduate level.
The program leading to a master’s degree is designed to provide training in both theory and practice in the selected discipline. Courses require intellectual and academic rigour, and the program provides students with an opportunity to synthesize the training in the form of a thesis. Students will study the foundations and principles of epidemiology and applied biostatistics, in order to design, conduct, and analyze clinical, population-based, environmental, pharmaco-epidemiological, policy, and methodological health-related research.
申请理科硕士课程的申请人最好持有自然科学 (如:化学、微生物学、人类遗传学)、定量科学(如:计算机科学、统计学)或社会科学(例如:社会学、心理学、经济学、地理学) 的学士学位，或在健康专业科学领域拥有学位(例如:医药，护理，社会工作，营养)。申请者必须对健康研究有兴趣，并有较强本科水平的概念、分析和定量技能(如:微分和积分计算，统计)。
硕士学位课程是为了在选择的学科中提供理论和实践的训练而设的。课程要求学生有知识和学术的严密性，为学生提供了一个论文形式的综合训练的机会。学生们将会研究流行病学和应用生物统计学的基础和原理，以便设计、引导和分析临床、人群、环境、药物流行病学、政策和方法相关的研究。