Doctoral Programs
Ph.D. in Applied Health Research and Evaluation
The Department of Public Health Sciences offers a Ph.D. in Applied Health Research and Evaluation (AHRE). This innovative, advanced research program rigorously prepares future scholars to conduct relevant research on issues critically important to public health.
Students in this program learn to design and employ cutting-edge methodologies with community, private sector, and public partners to provide effective solutions to challenging health problems. The core curriculum emphasizes a full spectrum of methodological skills that enable students to design and implement research focused on health outcomes, effective and efficient health delivery services, comparative effectiveness of clinical and cost outcomes, and program evaluation, with substantial attention devoted to implementation science: that bridge between health research and health practice. This combination of advanced research skills and strong conceptual framework produces independent leaders in health research capable of working across traditional disciplinary boundaries. AHRE graduates possess skills to analyze and interpret complex health problems and data and provide structure for data-informed decision making to empower change in population health and healthcare practice, making them highly employable in state and federal agencies, private research and evaluation firms, health delivery systems, and academia.
Affiliated Programs
Ph.D. in Statistics – Offered by the Clemson School of Mathematics and Statistics
As a doctoral candidate in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, you will be prepared and trained to be not only an expert in the mathematical sciences, but a leader in the field of mathematics. You will be expected to be an expert in research, as well as competent in a broad array of mathematical sciences techniques. You will also acquire the skills to be an effective communicator and teacher of basic mathematical sciences, one who can mentor and lead future mathematical scientists.
Ph.D. in Biomedical Data Science and Informatics - Collaborative Degree Offered by Clemson and MUSC
The nation’s transition to new healthcare delivery models and the exponential growth in biomedical data translate to a need for professionals with expertise in data science focused on biomedical research who can leverage big data to improve health in the state and the nation. Specialized tracks will initially include precision medicine, population health, and clinical and translational informatics. Biomedical data science and informatics is an interdisciplinary field that applies concepts and methods from computer science and other quantitative disciplines together with principles of information science to solve challenging problems in biology, medicine and public health.
