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    Data, Medicine, and Health

    The Data, Medicine and Health training cluster encompasses three training tracks: Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Population Health.

    Biostatistics is a scientific discipline that generates novel approaches to study design and data analysis, with a focus on improving human health and health care. Our graduates work in the fields of medicine, public health, and biology. They develop innovations in methodology, theory, and application of biostatistical methods to the entire spectrum of basic, clinical, and translational biomedical research.

    In the epidemiology track, you receive mentoring and training in the theory and methods of epidemiology, including study design, measurement, and causal inference, to examine the distribution and determinants of health in human populations.

    Our population health track has research strengths in healthcare delivery science, health disparities, epidemiologic methods, comparative effectiveness and decision science, implementation science, behavior change theory and practice, medical ethics, and health informatics.

    Here at Vilcek, we have a cluster known as the data, medicine, and health cluster. And that's a group of three doctoral tracks. It's epidemiology, biostatistics, and population health. Our students come and learn, "What is it about where we live and work and play that causes poor health?" And students learn both quantitative and qualitative approaches to understanding those questions, and design their own study as part of their dissertation.

    Some students are working now on the epidemiology of bloodstream infections. Others are working to emulate clinical trials using large networks of electronic health records. And still others are really thinking about the process of developing a community-oriented intervention, and how to implement that intervention in communities so that they're better linked to health care.

    There are epidemiology, biostatistics, and population health programs around the country. But what makes NYU really unique is that we're housed in the School of Medicine with a hospital. There's a real connectivity between the public health side of our field and the clinical side of our field. And so our doctoral students are working with leading experts in the field, but also together with mentors who are clinicians and who are basic scientists.

    We have strong partnerships with community-based organizations and with federal and local policymakers. Students are really prepared to address a lot of the larger questions facing our society in terms of the health of our nation, the health of our children, the health of older adults. And the training is really applicable to academic careers to working in public health departments federally or locally, to working in industry or with nonprofit organizations.

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